James Joyner notes a study which says that leftish blogs pull in more ad revenue than rightish blogs.

I said most of this in James' comments, but it bears repe...

Starling Hunter has posted his study of BlogAds revenue. Via Outside the Beltway. His conclusions: (1) the number of weekly page views (WPV) is a much stronger predictor of weekly ad revenue and price than are either the number of inbound links or the ...

The real reason they do better should be obvious: it's who controls the White House and, to a much lesser extent the Congress, that will matter most of all here.

Let a Democrat take the White House in 2008, and you will see a surge in right-wing ad buys and interest. Do you really think Drudge would be anybody today if it weren't for Clinton?

If you want to see what's going on in a microcosm here, read The Life and Death of the American Spectator by Byron York. The whole thing is interesting from start to finish, but notice something you'll find here: the small network of fanatically rabid and often irrational partisans, working outside the beltway, feeding insatiably on anything that remotely hinted of scandals. The breathless belief that the administration was the most dishonest, slimy, and dirty one in history, bringing the nation to the brink of totalitarian collapse. The multimillionaire financiers.

How is that different from today, except that the faces and names have changed, and the internet makes the networking easier and the batty people more able than ever to reinforce each other and egg each other on and give each other money in order to save the world from the evil one in the White House?

What I hope is that after another ten years or so of this, where we see it with one or two other administrations, with hopefully a few changes of power, most people will start to notice what really goes on with this stuff.

But then, maybe not.