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Web Stats: HuffPo Defeats Drudge?

March 25, 2008

Kara Swisher has an interesting blog post over at All Things Digital that points out that "the Blue states are taking back ground from the Red ones -- at least in cyberspace." In February, for the first time ever, Arianna Huffington's liberal political news and commentary site, the Huffington Post, reportedly surpassed conservative/populist Matt Drudge's Drudge Report.

She cited recent traffic data reports from both comScore and Nielsen Online. Nielsen, for example, said Huffington's traffic has more than tripled since February 2007 when it had about 1.1 million unique visitors. Last month, that number grew to 3.7 million. The same month, Drudge's site had 3.4 million (it had 2.75 million a year ago). Read the full post here.

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