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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
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Governor
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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Michael Bennet
50%
50%
50%
Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) Brian Mason
60%↑
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20%↓
Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) George Stern
(R) Sheri Davis
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40%
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
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90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 07, 2009 06:00 PM UTC
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I pay $5 a quarter to keep the Gannett Blog afloat. (I love watching my old company drown in a pool of it’s own bullshit.) I make it thru Paypal, and it’s a small price to pay to keep it going.
I’d gladly pay the same amount to joust with Laughing Boy, or to read the newest idiotic temper tantrums from Haners, Libertad or Another Skeptic….
He is one of the best.
And as far as paying money to use this site, I don’t think that would pave the way for another 25% increase in traffic this year year. Of course, it’s an off-year, so it’ll probably decrease anyway.
DKos makes it optional. Pols could do the same, if interested in going in that direction.
The Blog Users Bill Of Rights. Won’t Pols have to pose it to the users in a blog-wide election?
An off presidential year election. How exciting. 🙂
1/2 million unique visitors? I don’t buy it.
If someone visits from 2 different computers they’re double counted, aren’t they?
But even then it’s still a lot of people. FTS and square state don’t even get close when you combine both their numbers.
So it’s not like a half million people are reading the site every year, but it’s a good barometer for the popularity of a site.
We’d make up a bigger number
Most log analysis software counts a unique visitor as distinct browsers per IP address. Did you switch your browser from IE to Firefox, or did you get a Mac to replace your PC? You just increased your contribution to the unique visitor count. Did your IP address change due to an extended outage or ISP system reset? Increase your contribution to the “unique visitor” count again…
I probably account for a couple dozen of those unique visitor hits, between travel and browser switching.
Total unique visitors is actually 534,991.
Seems like a believable number to me, but unless Pols can come up with some juicy news over the next year, expect those numbers to drop significantly. Having a link on McCain’s blog page, sitting in top position when a user googles “Colorado Politics”, and seeing as it was an election year, I’m guessing numbers will decline in ’09.
We got very little click thru traffic from the McCain site. At least, not as much as you might have thought.
Sounds like no-one got their McCain toaster oven reward by coming over here. And you didn’t get the extra ad revenue.
just bookmarked the site …
Curious if you’ve tracked in-state vs. out-of-state traffic, I would bet the latter spiked this year — not that there’s anything wrong with that.
based on what they said above, my guess is it’s unique cookies. When you first visit it registers a cookie in your browser. On subsequent visits it sees the existing cookie and knows you’re a repeat. So how would you get a duplicate count:
1. You hit Pols from another computer. I hit it from 5 (home, work, iPhone, laptop, & wife’s computer). I may have used 1 or 2 other computers. So I’m 5 – 7 unique visitors. I think work & home is common for a lot of people.
2. You delete all your cookies. A lot of anti-virus programs will suggest deleting all cookies it does not recognize. If you say yes, next time around you’re a new user. If you do this it will ask you to log in again.
3. You get a new computer or rebuild your hard drive. I did this on my home, work, & laptop so that’s 3 more unique users for me.
4. You switch browsers, although they are pretty good about sharing cookies. But if the new browser caused you to log in agai, thats a new one.
Over the period of a year, for a site like Pols where people may hit it from multiple systems at work or home, the true number is probably about ½ to ¼ of the total, which is still impressive.
By way of comparison my ColoradoBallot site got 50,000 unique visitors over about 5 weeks. I think that site tended to get 1 visit from most people. So the election pulled in a ton of people during the final run up to voting – here at Pols as well as other sites.
I think if you took all of the regulars, and the multiple computers they may use over the course of the year, we probably are a fraction of those coming from other sites for a one time look see. So, take off 25% for us multi-computer regulars.
Since every site deals with these unknowns, it’s still a valid comparison with other web sites.
Yeah, especially considering the visitor-to-page-view ratio, which seems awfully low, there must have been tens of thousands clicking through on a Google search (and enjoying the witty banter!) and then not visiting again. Pols always ranks high on searches, think of all the times someone Googled “Obama Denver” or the like this year.
Of course the several hundred power users must rack up hundreds of page views a week, regardless of how many computers (or iPhones, David!) they use.
Very impressive numbers, no matter how you slice it.
I’d like to see a ranking of the top 10 trafficked diaries — didn’t you used to do that a few years ago?