The Huffington Post is the internet's highest trafficked political news site/blog as of September 2008, according to a comScore study. The brainchild of Arianna Huffington was found to have almost twice the audience of runner-up Politico, and more than that of 2nd and 3rd place combined.
From Reuters:
The winner is... HuffingtonPost.com – founded by commentator Arianna Huffington, the site led among stand-alone political blogs and news sites with 4.5 million visitors in September, comScore said. That was way above the site’s tally of 792,000 in the same month last year.
The Daily Kos came in 8th place with an audience of 923,000 for the month of September 2008, a noteworthy improvement over last September's figure of 192,000.
While conservative websites such as the DrudgeReport and TownHall have also enjoyed larger audiences during the election season, the surge among liberal blogs has been overwhelmingly greater.
See the full results here.
The incredible growth in the significance of liberal websites during the past year is a testament to the progressive political shift the United States has been experiencing. These blogs are without a doubt having a substantive impact on the national debates and the political attitudes of average Americans. But this is only the beginning of a much bigger revolution. With continued effort and growth, blogs like these have the potential to become an unprecedented force for truth and accountability, as well as a voice for causes that have been marginalized by the corporate media.