6/2: TWIB Notes

Lots of movement at the bottom of the BloggersChoice Poll but no change in the top four. Only one blogger dropped out of the top 25 (The Moderate Voice) and was replaced by Pandagon. DailyKos moved up the rankings thanks mostly to righty crossover voting. Three of the top four sites are also the top trafficked sites according to The Truth Laid Bear(Talking Points Memo, like The Corner, must not make their hit counters public).

BloggersChoice Poll

1.	Instapundit (141)
2.	Talking Points Memo (117)
3.	Michelle Malkin (107)
4.	Eschaton (95)
5.	The Political Animal (82)
6.	Hullabaloo (62)
7.	Crooks and Liars (59)
8.	firedoglake (57)
9.	The Corner (55)
10.	DailyKos (53)
11.	The Huffington Post (52)
12.	AMERICAblog (43)
12t.	Informed Comment (43)	
12t.	Powerline (43)
15.	Outside the Beltway (39)
16t.    Hugh Hewitt (38)
16t.    Hit and Run (38)	
18t.	Ace of Spades (35)
18t.	Political Wire (35)	
20.     Think Progress (33)
21.	littlegreenfootballs (32)
22.	The Volokh Conspiracy (30)
23.     Kausfiles (29)
24t.	Pandagon (27)
24t.	RedState (27)

METHODOLOGY: Each blogger panelist (every political blogger in the Feedster top 500 received an invitation) was allowed to rank ten of their favorite sites. First place rankings received ten points, second place rankings received nine, etc. Not everyone picked ten blogs. Total points for each site are in parentheses.

Our panel included: Ace O'Spades, Andrew Sullivan, Angry Bear, Arianna Huffington, Atrios of Eschaton, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Brad R of Sadly No, Leiter Reports, CJR Daily, Edward Morrisey of Captain's Quarters, Charles Johnson of littlegreenfootballs, Tim Cavanaugh of Hit and Run, Dan Drezner, Orcinus, David Sirota, Swing State Project, Dean's World, Digby of Hullablaoo, hilzoy at Obsidian Wings, Erick-Woods Erickson at RedState, Frank at IMAO, General JC at Jesus' General, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, Greyhawk at Mudville Gazzette, Gullyborg at Resistance if futile!, Hugh Hewitt, Expose the Left, Riehl World View, Dr. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway, JR at PressThink, Jessica at Feministing, Joe at evangelical outpost, Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice, John Hawkins at RightWingNews, John Henke at QandO, Mark Kleiman at Reality based Community, Janie at News Hounds, Norm at onegoodmove, PoliPundit, Scott Johnson at Powerline, Rob from Say Anything, Roger L. Simon, Rude Pundit, The Jawa Report, The Cassandra Page, Steve Soto from The Left Coaster, Professor Bainbridge, Steve Clemens of The Washington Note, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, Jeralyn at TalkLeft, Steve Benen at The Carpetbagger Report, Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch, Eugene Volokh, Will Franklin of Willisms, Wonkette, Brilliant at Breakfast, and TalkLeft.