Republicans Outnumber Democrats Online

[pkz]

this is the most out of whack thing I have ever seen!!!!!
and I am having a real hard time even buyin' it.
Honestly, about half of my family is reb, and they don't even have computers.
They think the internet is full of pervs and advertisements.
I am online for at least four hours a day....and look...no listing for DU.
what's up with that?

Table 1: Top 5 Sites among Republicans and Democrats (U.S., 18+ Online Population)

Site Site
Composition - Composition -
Site Republican Site Democratic
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RushLimbaugh.com 84.8 BlackAmericaWeb.com 79.9
NewsMax.com 65.4 AOL BlackVoices 64.8
Bill O'Reilly.com 65.4 BET.com 58.6
Drudge Report 59.0 Salon.com 55.3
Salt Lake Tribune 57.9 Village Voice 55.2

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan, Fall 2006 Release

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=178875

[Redstone]

1. Explanation: It's pure bullshit.

Anyone can design any poll to have results that they want.

Redstone

[MadMaddie]

4. I will raise you another Bullshit....

They intentionally put out erroneous facts to confuse...

[Redstone]

12. I see your raise and fold. You're absolutely right.

Redstone

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. well, they have to have some front while they are lapping up all

of the porn sites they are visiting....maybe Rush and other sites are used for the quick switch when the wife comes into the room!

[rzemanfl]

3. I don't get it,. Are they saying most Democrats are visiting

African-American websites?

[pkz]

8. yeah that is exactly what it is saying

all of us are apparently looking at those sites all day long.

while all the brainiacs are over at Rushbaugh's dump. ~sarcasm~

[rzemanfl]

18. Now I get it, they are saying that most people who visit African-

American websites are Democrats. That make sense.

[Old and In the Way]

5. The analysis is simply looking at sites by political affiliation, not popularity.

It makes perfect sense that 84% of Rush's on-line audience ID's as Republican. Probably a strong negative correlation to IQ, too.

[silverweb]

6. Bullshit.

Just because a site gets a lot of hits doesn't mean all its viewers are of a certain political persuasion.

Proof: How many DUers read the RW sites just to keep up with what they're saying there? It's called keeping tabs on the enemy.

:eyes:

[greeneyedboy]

7. total bullshit.

[Gman]

9. At one time, a few years ago, this was very true

long about the time DU started up, before Kos et al. I think it's probably more even now but I wouldn't be surprised if the pugs still had an edge.

[upi402]

10. Seemed like I got swamped when stating truth contrary to Bush

They are like "the Flood" if you've ever played the X-box game "Halo".
Like suicidal, possessed zealots.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

11. TOTALLY THE WRONG WAY TO LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS.

To me, what I got from that, is that Democrats are simply more diverse in where they get their information. See, we think for ourselves, and since we do so each of us have our preferences as to where we want to go for news etc... But the republican morons just follow like lemmings. They don't seek out other sources of information. They can only flock like the brainless sheep they are to the sites that are dictated to them, hence the build up of numbers for those sites. But Democrats diversify: We seek out many different sites: We don't need one master source of information: We don't have blinders on that shelter us from the real world and protect us from seeing the truth, by only exposing ourselves to the likes of News Max.

So that's what I get from this. I see the evidence that the freepers only have the ability to flock to their central propaganda, without the ability to seek out other forms of information.

[Anakin Skywalker]

15. That's One Good Way to Look At It!

[Anakin Skywalker]

13. Internet = Unrestricted Freedom of Speech. Rethugs Can't Handle That!

I think this source contains error.

Unless Rethugs are surfing for porn? SECRETLY, OF COURSE. SECRETLY. Wouldn't want to shatter the "family values" image, right?

[Epiphany4z]

14. well if they counted aol

its like 5 republicans with several accounts and 7 screen names on each....lol

[pkz]

17. here's another piece of crap

from that BS

Demographics

Perhaps contrary to assumptions about who's a Democrat and who's a Republican, neither party seemed to favor a particular gender or age group. Among racial groups, African Americans skewed Democratic; with a composition index of 231, they were over twice as likely to be Democratic as the average Web user. Asians were 36 percent more likely than the average Web user to be Democratic, and Hispanics were 28 percent more likely. White people were slightly more likely to be Republican.

and the thing is, that is probably true since all the unions have been busted.
Unions= strong Democratic groups...all gone now.

[joefree1]

16. Oh, this has to be true

Witness the excellent design of Freak Republic. Seriously though the media is in overdrive trying to make repukes feel better about themselves while the rest of humanity continues to evolve without them.