(H/T - Allahpundit)
56% of those surveyed by Harris Interactive say they never read political blogs. There’s also a few other eye-popping numbers, at least if you can trust the pollsters after their collective performance thus far this year:
- The over-62 crowd is actually the most-likely to read political blogs at least several times a month (26%), with each younger age group less-likely to read them.
- 76% of those that read blogs at least once a week read less than 5 political blogs, with Republicans most-likely to read 5 or more (26%).
- 69% of those that read blogs at least once a week didn’t comment in the week prior to the poll. I can definitely believe that one; it’s closer to 85% here.
- On the accuracy question, while pluralities of all 3 political groups (Republicans, Democrats, and Independents) believe blogs are about as accurate as the mainstream media, only among Democrats is there more respect for the MSM’s accuracy than for the blogs’ accuracy. 32% of Dems belive the MSM is more-accurate and 21% of Dems believe blogs are more-accurate, while the split among Republicans is 14%-37% and among Independents is 19%-36%.
- Even with their distain for the blogs’ accuracy, more Democrats see blogs as more valuable than the MSM than the other way around (26%-24%).
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This is part of the reason why I stick to writing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shoegasms.
My friends (and family) would never read anything political - even if I wrote the stuff.
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