Here’s a sort of ‘top 100’ list for the Canadian political blogs which I compiled for fun (I know, I’m at work right now and I’m bored and I have a really distorted sense of ‘fun’). Actually, the idea wasn’t really mine, I stole the idea from a post that Greg from democraticspace.com did back in 2006 and I decided to expand it to a top 100 list, take out the now defunct sites, and update the rest.
Just a few caveats to keep in mind when going over this list. First, about one third of all blogspot blogs that I entered into alexa.com‘s traffic analysis generated no data. For some reason though, all other blog hosts such as wordpress (and all people who host their own blog) seemed to register just fine. So, if you don’t show up on the list, don’t take it personally, it’s possible that alexa just doesn’t have data on you. Second, I believe that the traffic ranking at Alexa is based on the past 4 months or so, so if you’ve been taking the summer off (as I believe Rick Mercer has) then your traffic rank will probably reflect that more than your normal traffic flow. Third, this isn’t an exhaustive list. What I’ve done is taken Greg’s list, deleted all the blogs which no longer exist, and then simply went down the list of blogs at Bound By Gravity, starting at the top, until I filled in enough empty slots to equal 100.
If I’ve left out some blogs that generate data on Alexa.com (and are, say, under the 7,000,000 mark) and you’d like them included in the list, feel free to comment below with the Alexa url of the blog traffic overview and I’ll add it as soon as I get a chance.
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Canadian Political Blogger rank. Site name (& url) / site’s global Alexa ranking
- Paul Wells / 70,893
- Small Dead Animals /133,987
- Matthew Good /187,454
- Le Blogue du Québec / 210,363 (blogue francophone)
- The Politic / 274,126
- Progressive Bloggers / 283,480
- Steve Janke / 318,783
- Antonia Zerbisias / 324,154
- Garth Turner / 356,627
- Blogs Canada / 378,886
- Blogging Tories / 396,832
- Damian Penny / 455,529
- Vues d’ici / 460,543
- Vive le Canada / 461,727
- Amériquébec / 469,643 (blogue francophone)
- Emotion Creator / 484,553
- Andrew Coyne / 551,817
- Warren Kinsella / 593,125
- CalgaryGrit / 614,119
- Western Standard / 664,824
- Ken Chapman / 683,125
- Samantha Burns / 732,689
- Gen X at 40 / 735,226
- Werner Patels / 738,070
- Joseph Facal / 821,472 (blogue francophone)
- Montreal Simon / 840,565
- Stephen Taylor / 850,234
- Colby Cosh / 889,912
- Paulitics: Paul’s Socialist Investigations / 911,369
- Bound by Gravity / 912,488
- Dust my Broom / 939,419
- Abandoned Stuff / 949,762
- Scott’s DiaTribes / 954,036
- Canadian Cynic / 1,013,469
- David Akin / 1,070,642
- James Bow / 1,104,491
- Getting it Right / 1,113,156
- Girl on the Right / 1,166,381
- Red Tory / 1,175,715
- Far and Wide / 1,360,164
- Rick Mercer / 1,372,926
- April Reign / 1,387,411
- Prairie Wrangler / 1,440,822
- The Galloping Beaver / 1,455,318
- La Revue Gauche / 1,486,069
- Jordon Cooper / 1,518,839
- Canadian Cerberus / 1,553,403
- Buckdog / 1,591,003
- Big Blue Wave / 1,715,540
- Daveberta / 1,762,705
- The Blog Quebecois / 1,772,550
- Liblogs.ca / 1,870,127
- Jason Cherniak / 1,929,394
- Big City Lib / 1,960,969
- Larry Borsato / 2,065,636
- Section 15 / 2,065,958
- The Monarchist / 2,066,261
- The London Fog / 2,067,851
- Jay Currie / 2,190,102
- Stageleft / 2,238,667
- Green Bloggers (Canada) / 2,252,729
- democraticSPACE.com / 2,391,081
- Quebec Politique / 2,575,012 (blogue francophone)
- Un homme en colère / 2,653,297 (blogue francophone)
- Urban Refugee / 2,661,034
- Accidental Deliberations / 2,717,441
- Devin Johnston.ca / 2,718,187
- Idealistic Pragmatist / 2,725,501
- My Blahg / 2,800,670
- Uncorrected Proofs / 2,891,152
- Adam Daifallah / 3,018,846
- Political Staples / 3,222,345
- Marginalized Action Dinosaur / 3,302,191
- Rootleweb / 3,327,246
- Dr. Roy’s Thoughts / 3,622,245
- The Vanity Press / 3,622,958
- Crawl Across the Ocean / 3,625,835
- JimBobbySez / 3,632,287
- Bill Doskoch / 3,637,532
- Verbena-19 / 3,672,713
- The Spirit of Man / 3,787,343
- Cathie from Canada / 3,789,273
- Peace, Order and Good Government, eh? / 3,794,370
- Odd Thoughts / 3,796,069
- Canadiana’s Place / 4,020,291
- Unrepentant Old Hippie / 4,284,573
- A BCer in TO / 4,802,829
- Dawg’s Blawg / 4,817,302
- Red Jenny / 4,838,538
- East-End Underground / 4,874,982
- The Cylinder / 5,185,136
- Maxwell’s House / 5,533,134
- WingNuterer / 5,563,968
- Woman at Mile 0 / 5,610,425
- Begin Each Day… / 5,623,330
- HarperBizarro / 5,626,895
- Liberal Catnip / 5,776,892
- Antagoniste / 5,797,151 (blogue francophone)
- Blogging Dippers / 6,135,616
- Fuddle-Duddle / 6,238,129
Tories tank in the East, NDP hits 1 year high nationally
Published 31 July, 2007 Atlantic Canada , Canadian Politics , Canadian Politics (domestic) , Conservative Party , current events , Dion , Elections , Elizabeth May , Green Party , Harper , Layton , Liberal Party , NDP , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , news , News, Commentary & Op/Ed , Nova Scotia , politics , Polls , Progressive , socialist realism 6 CommentsWhat’s that loud “thwack” sound you’re hearing? Why, it’s the Tories collapsing badly in Atlantic Canada from their once impressive showing.
Using the highly accurate technique used in the polling industry known as the ‘rolling average’ (the concept of which is familiar to anybody who’s visited the Paulitics Polling Resource), it is obvious that the Conservatives are in trouble in Atlantic Canada.
Now, before I show you the actual graph of rolling averages for every poll conducted in Atlantic Canada in the past six months, do keep in mind that the technique of rolling averages, by definition, makes huge swings in popular support less marked. Thus, both spikes and drops in support tend to be flattened and appear less dramatic.
So, with that, let’s look at the rolling averages for Atlantic Canada courtesy of the Paulitics Provincial/Regional Polling Resource.
So, on the 28th of March of this year, the Conservatives were at roughly 37% in support in Atlantic Canada, which was an improvement over their 34.7% showing in the last federal election. However, since then, the Conservatives have dropped 12.4% — not in an individual poll, but in the rolling average of polls.
Put another way: Take 3 Atlantic Canadians who voted Tory in the last election. Now take one of them away and dress him in either NDP orange or Green and what’s left is how many Atlantic Canadians polls suggest would vote Tory in the next election.
Moreover, at the national level, we see declining support for both the Liberals and the Conservatives as demonstrated here (in fact the combined Liberal & Conservative parties’ rolling average has never, in the past 12 months of rolling averages, been lower than it currently is: 62.4%).
So take these two phenomena together and we have very bad news for the two mainstream, uber-capitalist parties; very good news for the three smaller, less capitalistic parties; and even worse news for Peter MacKay.
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