Congrats to Memphis Johnny for posting the 19,000th comment here at Politics Plus. Johnny is a newcomer here. He is a self-described Care2 refugee. Once he arrived, he immediately installed himself as a regular, and has become a most welcome addition. His sharp wit may be gallows humor, given his continual exposure to Tennessee Teabuggery.
Here are the results of the Presidential Preference poll:
And here are your comments:
From John on June 13, 2011 at 9:36 am.
Ron Paul
From karl on June 12, 2011 at 7:35 pm.
republican’s left us this deficit,
From Mcouse on June 8, 2011 at 7:48 am.
Ron Paul!
From Paul, on June 7, 2011 at 2:00 am.
Ron Paul
From RingoDeathStarr on June 6, 2011 at 7:41 am.
I don’t see the real threats to Obama on the list: Palin and Bachmann.
From Lisa G. in reply to RingoDeathStarr on June 7, 2011 at 7:08 am.
They are not threats to anyone but themselves.
From john day on June 4, 2011 at 3:24 am.
senator tom harken, howard dean,
From Lisa G. on June 3, 2011 at 9:20 am.
What other choice is there. The rebubs don’t even have a viable candidate.
From BB on June 1, 2011 at 10:22 am.
Kucinich or Ventura
From jimmy aloha in reply to BB on June 1, 2011 at 3:47 pm.
i want to add Bernie Sanders to BB’s list
From Lisa G. in reply to jimmy aloha on June 7, 2011 at 7:07 am.
All three are good choices.
From TWM on June 1, 2011 at 3:44 am.
After 12 years of John Engler as governor of MI I swore I would never vote for any republican. Even that horses ass would be considered too moderate in today’s world but he left behind a 600 million deficit just 2 years before the whole economy tanked.
The winner was quite obvious.
The new poll is similar.
Congrats to Patty for posting the 18,500th comment here at Politics Plus. Patty is a newcomer here. She comes to us from Care2, an activist networking site. Once she arrived, she has jumped into our family with both feet ever since, except for a brief respite for computer downtime, and has become a most welcome addition. She does not write a blog, but here’s a link to Patty’s Care2 profile.
In May, Politics Plus ran well almost the same as April’s performance. We still can’t be stars every month, and it was a good solid month.
Here are our basic stats:
Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on May 19.
Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch, so the above map represents just two months’ traffic. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.
Our average durations were up from 183 seconds last month:
Number of visits: 38189 – Average: 195 s
Number of visits
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0s-30s
31172
81.6 %
30s-2mn
2080
5.4 %
2mn-5mn
1316
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5mn-15mn
1228
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15mn-30mn
825
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30mn-1h
1027
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1h+
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That’s expected, because we also had fewer drive-by visitors.
Search engine referrals were up slightly.
20 different referring search engines
Pages
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Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)
8801
58.7 %
13649
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4789
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7998
34.2 %
Microsoft Bing
621
4.1 %
746
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Microsoft MSN Search
403
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403
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Yahoo!
165
1.1 %
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Google (Images)
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Unknown search engines
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0.1 %
AOL
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Ask
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Microsoft Windows Live
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Digg (Social Bookmark)
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MyWebSearch
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GoodSearch
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Yandex
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Our top four non-blog referrers are:
http://www.reddit.com/ 4,600+
http://www.buzzflash.net/ 3,000+
http://www.care2.com/ 1,600+
Our top 15 blog referrers are:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
Here’s some linkey-love in return The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs. The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.” We’re on the same side here, so I don’t mind. Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK. Just link back, please. Also, feel free to swipe the graphics in the articles.
We have a new feature occasioned by a new plugin. Unfortunately I screwed the pooch on this one. The old month’s data disappears at midnight sharp on the 1st, so it’s up to me to grab it on the night of the 31st. I just plain forgot. Mea culpa. I remember that Princess Lisa G was leading the pack with Jerry, Nameless and Mark close on her heels.
The widget is in the right column. I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth. Those who leave their URLs in their comments, get linkey love, or will if I can just remember this month. 
Technorati remains a complete mystery to me. Although, there is little to distinguish May from April, we’re solidly back on the A list. Our global authority, politics authority and US politics authority are all way up. They started rating us for World (events) again. I still have absolutely no idea why.
We have 416,463 links on other websites, well up from 376,576 last month.
We have 2,380 posts and 18,192 comments, as of midnight 6/1.
We have new wacky avatars, and I’ll change them each month, but I recommend 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. Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.
I had hoped for an increase from last month, but it’s springtime, and political blogs tend to slow down for the winter months in non-election years. We did not have a viral article. Your participation remains what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing. Thank you all for all you do here.
Here are the results of the troop deployment abroad poll.
And here are your comments.
From Jerry Critter on May 28, 2011 at 3:22 pm.
I would like to vote Nowhere, but I suppose there are places where we are now and need to say for a while longer…like Korea.
From Lisa G. on May 16, 2011 at 9:13 am.
I picked Japan, Germany, and Korea for various reasons. Japan, because they have no standing army and it keeps China in check over Taiwan; Germany, because it gives us a European presence into the Middle East and that’s where we treat our wounded soldiers from Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. and Korea because those North Koreans would overrun the DMZ in a second if they thought they could get away with it and we also fight Al Queada in the Philippines, and all those various weird countries over there.
‘Nowhere’ was the overwhelming winner, but I believe many picked it as a knee-jerk reaction, without due thought.
I picked Germany and Italy, because we cannot otherwise fulfill our obligations under NATO. I picked Japan, because I’d rather the US defend them than have them rearm. I picked South Korea, because North Korea will invade otherwise. I picked Texas, to safeguard the US from InsaniTEA.
The new poll is a mock Presidential election between formally announced candidates. I also included Romney, because he will announce tomorrow.
Congrats to Jerry Critter for posting the 18,000th comment here at Politics Plus. This is his second award, almost sic months to the day since his last. Jerry visits daily, because he has become addicted to the Jig Zone Puzzles in our Open Thread. We now have evidence that he still mutters “My Precious” while doing them. He has become one of our most prolific commentators, and writes an excellent blog of his own. You can find him at Critter’s Crap.
Here are the results of the Republican Goals poll.
And here are your comments.
From seakat on May 14, 2011 at 7:48 am.
An all category would have been nice, it was too hard to pick just one.
From Xander’s Mimi on May 13, 2011 at 3:30 pm.
I chose "other" because there was no "all of the above" option.
From RobK on May 9, 2011 at 6:26 am.
Yes. Just "Yes."
From BopityBopper on May 4, 2011 at 12:00 pm.
The GOP is dispicable on so many levels it is hard, really hard to pick just one.
From Lisa G. on May 3, 2011 at 3:41 am.
I need an all category on this one. Every one is disgusting.
From SoINeedAName on May 2, 2011 at 12:24 pm.
I went with "Destroy Voting Rights" – not only because I think it is, but also because Teapublicans believe that if they accomplish that, the rest of the choices will fall into place like dominoes.
From Jerry Critter on May 2, 2011 at 12:16 pm.
They want to kill those that are the least able to provide money to them…although I would not argue against any of the choices.
Evidently, many of you wanted an “all of the above” category. It is, in my opinion, the best answer, but I excluded it for a reason. Everyone who took the time to consider their vote spent time seriously considering many of the Republican Parties most heinous features. Encouraging that thought was my reason for the poll.
I voted for the second place finisher, establish permanent one party rule. The reason for my choice is that all the other items can be undone by kicking Republicans out of office. If Republicans control all three branches of government and the means to count votes they will implement all the other items and there would be nothing we should do short of revolution.
There is a new poll up. Please vote.
This is Nameless second Big Mouth Award, the other last September, 7,500 comments ago. He isn’t a blogger, so you can’t follow him home, but he comments regularly and insightfully here. His ability to come up with links to increase our understanding on virtually any subject is still a gift for which I am very grateful. He has enriched us all.
Congrats, Nameless!
