Aug 042016
 

Here are the results of our “How Superdelegates Should Vote” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking or will of the national majority.

0804Poll

Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may read them here.

I voted with the majority, of course.  However, the one thing that struck me as a non sequitur  is that most of the people that talked about wanting the Superdelegates to override the voters’ will also discussed wanting to remove them altogether.  I have said they should be removed for many years, because they should never be allowed to override the primary and caucus results.

A new poll is up.

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Aug 032016
 

I’m back to doing these, but let’s start with a big hand for the Squatch for doing such a great job with June’s report.  Last month, hits and bandwidth were up from June, but the more important stats were down. 

Here is our latest summary:

Stats07-2016

Reported period

Month Jul 2016

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Jul 2016 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Jul 2016 – 23:58

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

8,435

 

34,090

(4.04 visits/visitor)

100,081

(2.93 Pages/Visit)

256,798

(7.53 Hits/Visit)

8.50 GB

(261.59 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

432,260

498,054

10.24 GB

Reported period

Month Jul 2015

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Jul 2015 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Jul 2015 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

9,760

 

30,626

(3.13 visits/visitor)

89,850

(2.93 Pages/Visit)

235,370

(7.68 Hits/Visit)

3.17 GB

(108.58 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

349,301

394,093

5.84 GB

Year over year, 2016 stats are marginally lower than those from 2015.

Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:

QUS07-2016

They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they are a valuable source of information.  We are still mostly older, well educated, poor, Democrats, and politically active.  We are still about 43% male and 57% female.  I wonder if they are basing that on Squatch’s feet.

Here is our archived ClustrMap for July only.

ClustrMap07-2016

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  They have changed their format.  When you click the map in the left column, it shows the current month only, no longer the year to date..

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 2,373
Brussels Unprepared 3/23/2016 304
5 Looniest Right-Wing Moments This Week 1/20/2016 278 (by the Squatch!)
Republicans Move to Legalize Hate 7/11/2016 231
Open Thread – 7/6/2016 7/6/2016 211

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  With the exception of Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs, all of the top articles are new to the list, with four from 2016, and two from July.  Congratulations to Lynn, the Sasquatch, for cracking the top five!

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Care2 2,333
Google 1,457
Stumbleupon 136
Google (Images) 103

Google is up by almost 100, and Google (images) is back over 100.  Stumbleupon is up 8 while Care2 is down 15.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://noisyroom.net/blog/category/authors/terresa-monroe-hamilton/
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php
http://alterx.blogspot.ca/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://author.addictinginfo.org/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://mauigirlsmeanderings.blogspot.com/
http://theprogressivewing.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/

Once upon a time I included fifteen here with two or more referrals.  This month, there are 14, up from 8 in June, but this time, I included 6 with only one referral.  This is the one stat that still disappoints me most, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers.  However, we seem to have become a go-to site for activists!.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

Here are our top commentators for July. Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here, unless I forget to copy the data before it resets.  We had a tie for fifteenth place.

Joanne Dixon (162)
Lynn Squance (130)
Edie (112)
Lona Goudswaard (105)
jla (84)
Pat B (80)
SoINeedAName (80)
Mitch D. (71)
Jim Phillips (58)
Vivian Birdwell (16)
Jerry Critter (12)
Arielle (8)
Avril Lomas (5)
Carrie Burton (4)
d bishop (3)
Phil Hanson (3)

People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there.. 

We have 172,106 links on other websites, down considerably from June.  This reflects that fact that thousands of these links are over five years old, dating back to a time, when we consistently averaged over a million hits a month.  I used to have the time and energy for 7-8 articles per day. Major sites (like Care2), where I used to post links are no longer available, and I’ve stopped at other major sites, and I no longer visit 20 – 30 blogs per day, because I just can’t do everything I used to do.  However, as quantity has gone down, quality has gone up.

As of Midnight on August 1, we have 6,722 articles and 81,059 comments.

Kudos to Joanne and Lona for posting the 80,000th and 81,000th comments.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Authors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.  Please do so, or if you commonly leave links and don’t know how to blank the target, please say so.

Given our expanded talent, I expect to continue our overall upward trend, although my cancer surgeries and resulting problems probably occasioned this temporary drop.  One way you can help is to share our articles, not only with your family and friends, but also, on other sites, linking back to the article here.  The more exposure we get, the better we shall do at fulfilling our stated purpose, “Overcoming Right Wing Insanity One Day at a Time!”

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You are why we are here!  You are the reason we are a success!!

Now lets keep kicking Baaa Baaa Bagger butt!! Black Sheep Winking smile

Don’t forget . . .

Vote Blue to Dump Trump

or he’ll get you in the rump!!

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Jul 312016
 

81-Lona

Lona is still a denizen of Care2, a daily participant here, and a multinational treasure, who spends her time in the Netherlands and Queensland, Australia,  This is her fourth award, the first on 8/6/2015, shortly after she started commenting here, the second on 3/11, and her third on 4/4.  Her knowledge of US Politics remains far greater than that of the average American voter. She enjoys sending me naps, when I am tired. She has also become an Author here, at Politics Plus, writing her "A View from Afar" series, in which she puts a European twist on current events, until she flips herself upside down this week, and switches her viewpoint to Oztralia,

Please join me in inundating her with hugs and kudos. I look forward to her fifth.

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Jul 042016
 

80-JoanneD

This is Joanne’s fourth Big Mouth award.  She earned her first in September 2013, her second in March 2015, her third in May 2015, and I have no doubt that there will be many more to come.

A denizen of Care2, she came to us from there, and is now a regular.  She’s super-smart, witty a political junky and an activist for all kinds of human rights.  I have had occasion to correspond with her, and she faces some major issues in her life with exceptional dignity and grace.

Last Autumn I appointed her to a staff position  here and is now a Politics Plus Author. One of her articles in June had more traffic than any of mine did. Please join in swamping her with the praise and kudos she deserves.  Her daily participation makes this a better site.

Because this was an even 10,000th comment, Joanne has won a personalized Politics Plus Big Mouth Award coffee mug I have already customized and ordered it. Joanne should receive it this month, you you’ll get to see a Mug Shot (picture) of her with her mug.

If we’re really nice to her, perhaps she might harass Nameless for us and make him send his Mug Shot for the 60,000th comment a year bad a half ago. Surprised smile

Woooo Hoooo Erynator!!

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Jun 162016
 

Here are the results of our “Education Blame/Credit” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking or will of the national majority.

0616Poll

Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may read them here.

I voted that Republicans have made it worse, because they are the ones responsibhle for the cuts that have decimated the programs od several different kinds that keep people off the streets.

The new poll questions whether or not the Superdelegates should override the votes of the majority of Democratic voters, resulting in a majority of pledged delegates.  Don’t forget to vote, please.

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Jun 062016
 

79-MitchD

Although Mitch has been following Politics Plus and commenting for quite some time on Care2, where he has been active since 2010, he only started commenting here at the site a few months ago, so this is his very first Big Mouth Award.  Consequently, I don’t know that much about him.  He is a progressive activist and a devout Atheist.  He hails from the state, where I grew up, NJ, so he has a B IG problem in the State House. His comments are dry, witty and cutting.  His pet peeves seem to be toward religion, but he has no trouble coexisting with people with authentic faith. It’s people, who use their religion to promote bigotry and ethnocentrism that bug him. He’s an advocate for human rights of all kinds, and animal welfare. He has cats. Cat face He also has dawgs, but hopefully, he’ll learn that CAT is where it’s AT! Thumbs up

He is a most welcome asset to our community here.  I certainly want to keep him around.  Please pile on the kudos,  He has earned them.

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Jun 022016
 

In May Politics Plus was well up from April in every category.  I am very pleased.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats05-2016

Reported period

Month May 2016

First visit

01 May 2016 – 00:00

Last visit

31 May 2016 – 23:59

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

11,491

38,405

(3.34 visits/visitor)

101,818

(2.65 Pages/Visit)

246,806

(6.42 Hits/Visit)

6.56 GB

(179.09 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

399,643

471,539

8.88 GB

 

Reported period

Month May 2015

First visit

01 May 2015 – 00:00

Last visit

31 May 2015 – 23:58

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

8,806

27,104

(3.07 visits/visitor)

75,708

(2.79 Pages/Visit)

216,640

(7.99 Hits/Visit)

3.09 GB

(119.46 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

326,601

371,059

5.69 GB

Furthermore, we are up significantly from last May in every category.

Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:

QUS05-2016

They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they are a valuable source of information.  We are still mostly older, well educated, poor, Democrats, and politically active. 

Here is our archived ClustrMap for April only.

ClustrMap05-2016

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  They have changed their format..  When you click the map in the left column, it shows the current month only, no longer the year to date..

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 2,249
Koch Brothers Finance Racism 4/18/2011 438
Friday Fun – Cat Sign Language: The Tales a Cat’s Tail Tells 5/27/2016 216
Personal Update–5/9/2016 5/9/2016 197
Stewart Nailed Rump Dump Again!! 5/12/2016 174

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  I’m quite pleased that three from April made the cut,  but surprised that one was just a Personal Update. Congratulations for Nameless for cracking the top five!

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Care2 2,375
Google 2,106
Stumbleupon 137
Google (Images) 109

All are slightly down from April, except Google.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/

Once upon a time I included fifteen here, but these four are the only ones with two or more referrals.  We also had seven in April.  This is the one stat that still disappoints me most, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers.  However, we seem to have become a go-to site for activists!.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

Here are our top commentators for April, not May.  My bad.  By the time I remembered to capture them, it had already reset.  As the resident Big Mouth, I don’t count.  Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here, unless I forget to copy the data before it resets.  We had a four way tie for fifteenth place.

Joanne Dixon (115)
Lynn Squance (94)
Lona Goudswaard (90)
Edie (84)
Pat B (81)
jla (74)
SoINeedAName (58)
Mitch D. (50)
Vivian Birdwell (45)
Jim Phillips (42)
Jerry Critter (14)
Arielle (11)
dave c (4)
Phil Hanson (4)
Cheryl A. Aaron (3)
gene jacobson (3)
Patty Lasek (3)
Yvonne White (3)

People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there.. 

We have 426,054 links on other websites, up considerably from April.

As of Midnight on June 1, we have 6560 articles and 78,837 comments.

Kudos to Pat B for posting the 78,000th comment.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

We wish to thank JLA for her excellent service, while she was here.  She has resigned her post.  Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Authors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD and Lona Goudswaard, the Nap Bandit.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave an notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.  Please do so, or if you commonly leave links and don’t know how to blank the target, please say so.

Given our expanded talent, I expect to continue our upward trend, although my cancer surgeries may occasion a temporary drop.  One way you can help is to share our articles, not only with your family and friends, but also, on other sites, linking back to the article here.  The more exposure we get, the better we shall do at fulfilling our stated purpose, “Overcoming Right Wing Insanity One Day at a Time!”

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You are why we are here!  You are the reason we are a success!!

Now lets keep kicking Bagger butt!! Winking smile

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Jun 012016
 

Here are the results of our “How Progressives Should Vote” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking or will of the national majority.

0601Poll

Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may read them here.

I voted the right way, as did virtually everyone else.

The new poll is up and it addresses a key problem.  Please vote.

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