Feb 132018
 

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This is Joanne’s seventh Big Mouth award.  She earned her first in September 2013, her second in March 2015, her third in May 2015, her fourth in July, 2016, her fifth in October, 2016, and her sixth in September, 2017. I still predict there are more coming. I still think JD comments more than I do.

A denizen of Care2, she came to us from there, and is now part of management.  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.

In early 2016, I appointed her to a staff position, Politics Plus Author, and in October 2016, I promoted her to Editor. Please join in piling on the praise and kudos she deserves.  Her daily comments and her articles make this a far better site.

Help Her

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Feb 022018
 

Compared to December, January results were down in every category.  I don’t have an explanation.

Here is our latest summary:

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Reported period

Month Jan 2018

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Jan 2018 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Jan 2018 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

7,214

 

29,484

(4.08 visits/visitor)

117,962

(4 Pages/Visit)

246,365

(8.35 Hits/Visit)

9.61 GB

(341.7 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

560,849

634,221

14.90 GB

Reported period

Month Jan 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Jan 2017 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

12 Jan 2017 – 05:00

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

4,517

 

11,112

(2.46 visits/visitor)

29,111

(2.61 Pages/Visit)

82,107

(7.38 Hits/Visit)

1.98 GB

(186.73 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

145,429

166,336

3.01 GB

The comparison with last January reveals that, unlike last month, we are up across the board.  However, last year was pathetic.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  If it seems sparse, remember that this is only one month’s traffic.

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ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location. 

Here are our top five articles:

Poll Results – 1/2/2018 1/2/2018 3,082
Bill Maher from 1/19 1/20/2018 613
Personal Update – 1/1/2018 1/1/2018 403
Filibuster Reform on Day One! 11/27/2012 380
Open Thread – 1/3/2017 1/3/2017 363

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Three were from January.   I wrote than all.  I am surprised with which articles made it.

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

Google 2,032
Care2  1,880
Stumbleupon 417

Google is slight down from December.   Care2 and Stumbleupon are down.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com

We had 3 sites  with 2 or more referrals, down 3 from January.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We need to improve this.  Perhaps I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight February 1, we had 7,962 articles and 95,644 comments.

Nobody earned a Big Mouth Award in January.

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 Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author last August to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

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.

Thank you for all you do, everywhere you do it.

2018 has arrived.  It’s a busy political time, and we’re not getting the traffic that should engender.  Please spread PP links around, when you get the opportunity.

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Poll Results – 2/1/2018

 Posted by at 12:34 pm  Blog News, Politics
Feb 012018
 

Here are the results of our “Shithole Countries” 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 of the majority of those who actually do think.

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

I voted for the policy answer.  That it was profane was not significant.  Trump uses profanity more often than not.  That it was racist was not significant.  Trump makes multiple racist statements almost daily.  These are just business as usual, and that also excludes the easy answer, all of the above.  What is significant is the public proclamation that the foreign policy of the United States is racist.

The new poll is up.  Please vote now and in November.

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Jan 162018
 

Here are the results of our “New Year’s Resolutions” 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 of the majority of those who actually do think.

0116Poll

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

In years past, I have always voted that I don’t make New Year’s resolutions.  How ever, every day, I always resolve to RESIST!!  So this year, I just made New Year’s Day the same as any other day in that respect.

The new poll is up.

VOTE!!

then

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Poll Results – 1/2/2018

 Posted by at 12:32 pm  Blog News, Politics
Jan 022018
 

Here are the results of our “Naughty or Nice” 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 of the majority of those who actually do think.

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

I voted naughty, but TomCats are naughty by definition.

Resolve to vote in the new poll, please.

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Jan 022018
 

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Congrats to Jerry Critter for posting the 95,000th comment here at Politics Plus.  This is his sixth award.  The last was for 75,000th in February, 2016.  He used to visit, because he was addicted to the Jig Zone Puzzles in our Open Thread, but  I haven’t heard him mutter “My Precious”, in quite some time.  When he visits, he is involved in all aspects of this site, and is one of the few people who has been here since before we converted to WordPress from Blogger, making him a friend of many years standing. He remains one of our most welcome commentators.   When he does comment, he makes excellent points and has a good sense of humor.  He used to write an excellent blog of his own.  You could find him at Critter’s Crap,  but it’s been over a year, since his last article there. Please join me in praising and thanking him. We’d like to see him far more often again.

Jerry does…

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Dec 022017
 

Compared to October, November results were slightly down.  It was a shorter month with a four day holiday weekend.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats11-2017

Reported period

Month Nov 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Nov 2017 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Nov 2017 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

8,864

 

31,085

(3.5 visits/visitor)

114,110

(3.67 Pages/Visit)

238,522

(7.67 Hits/Visit)

8.76 GB

(295.54 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

514,109

587,072

13.24 GB

 

Reported period

Month Nov 2016

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Nov 2016 – 00:01

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Nov 2016 – 23:58

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

9,276

 

27,473

(2.96 visits/visitor)

81,817

(2.97 Pages/Visit)

276,690

(10.07 Hits/Visit)

6.78 GB

(258.67 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

350,170

405,161

7.30 GB

The comparison with last November reveals that we have fewer unique visitors, but the ones we have are visiting more and reading more articles.  That’s a good thing, I think.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2017 Year to Date.

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ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

National Popular Vote for the Reich 9/29/2017 2,654
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,045
Samantha Bee from 11/8 11/9/2017 641
Open Thread – 11/12/2017 11/12/2017 414
Personal Update – 11/26/2017 11/26/2017 405

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Three were from November.  Four were from this year.  All were from me.

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

Google 2,182
Care2  1,808
Stumbleupon 290
Facbook 187
Baidu 102

Google is down from October.   Care2 is down.  Stumbleupon is up. Facebook is up.  Baidu is down.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.mx/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://www.psuunderground.com/
http://globalglassonion.blogspot.be/
http://trumpinvestigations.org/

We had 7 sites  with 2 or more referrals, up 3 from October.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We need to improve this.

As of midnight December 1, we had 7,823 articles and 94,215 comments.

Congrats to SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, for posting the 94,000th 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.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author in August to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

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.

Thank you for all you do, everywhere you do it.

We have huge fights ahead, especially since the Republican Tax SCAM just passed the Senate.  And we have lost one of our premiere guiding lights.  Keith Olbermann retired.  To honor him and hold him up as an example for us to follow, here is his very first resistance video, published on 11/16/2016.

 

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Dec 012017
 

Here are the results of our “Thanksgiving Dinner” 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 of the majority of those who actually do think.

1201Poll

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

Like most of you, I voted for and had Turkey bird.  Now I intended to have dawg, but someone got to it before I could.  I suspect that the Sasquatch cooked my dawg and shared it with her own kitties, without saving any for me!  Sad smile

The new poll is up.  Don’t forget to vote.  A friend left this message: Ho! Ho!! Ho!!!

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