NLS, BVBL and RK by Region

As I promised last night, here are the latest traffic statistics for the three largest blogs in Virginia:  NLS, RK (Raising Kaine) and BVBL (Black Velvet Bruce Li).  (No other blog in Virginia that publishes its traffic has enough to analyze). 

Virginia Based Traffic (all other states excluded)

NLS:  1,179 Readers a Day (41.7%)
RK:  963 Readers a Day (34.0%)
BVBL:  687 Readers a Day (24.3%)

But the regional results may surprise you. I broke it into 5 regions.

Northern Virginia (Prince William, Loudoun, and everything east to the city), Hampton Roads (South Hampton Roads, plus the Peninsula), Metro Richmond (Richmond City, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland), Southwest/Southside (Roanoke and everything south and west of there, and going along the NC border to Danville), and Other (Charlottesville, Valley, far exurbs of NoVA, Northern Neck and other areas not included in other regions).

Here's how they broke out:

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Southwest/Southside
NLS:  70 Readers a Day (53.4%)
RK:  52 Readers a Day (40.0%)
BVBL:  9 Readers a Day (6.6%)

Clearly everyone has a lot of work to do for getting this region into the blogs.
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Hampton Roads
RK:  159 Readers a Day (48.6%)
NLS:  151 Readers a Day (46.2%)
BVBL:  17 Readers a Day (5.2%)

The only region RK currently leads in among the "Big Three" blogs.
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Metro Richmond
NLS:  262 Readers a Day (60.0%)
RK:  136 Readers a Day (31.1%)
BVBL:  39 Readers a Day (8.9%)

I don't know any way to explain this other than NLS must be the most popular among lobbyists and other Richmond based "insiders".  This might explain why so many people take our ratings as conventional wisdom.
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Other
NLS:  124 Readers a Day (51.9%)
RK:  104 Readers a Day (43.5%)
BVBL:  11 Readers a Day (4.6%)

The one thing I would change next time I do this is Charlottesville needs its own category.  Probably half of these stats come from there.
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Now the big one you are all waiting for....

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Northern Virginia
BVBL:  610 Readers a Day (36.0%)
NLS:  572 Readers a Day (33.8%)
RK:  511 Readers a Day (30.2%)

How in the heck did BVBL become the largest blog in Northern Virginia?

Lucky for all of you Northern Virginia traffic was large enough that I was able to divide it by locality!

Those results will be up this afternoon...
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Comments

[Augusta2]

Lot of people in Southside area don't even have computers! Can't afford them. Many don't have jobs, a lot have jobs whose wages are so low that they work two jobs. Many have wages that they can barely survive on. They are tired. They are fed up with rich people like their present Delegate Danny Marshall pretending to be representing them. He cannot even begin to walk in their shoes! He even co-sponsored the driver fees bill. He has defended it over & over. NOW he writes a letter to Gov. Kaine asking for fees to be put on hold til July 08 so they can consider making changes. Southsiders are too busy living life to blog about it...Not an easy life either.

[DemMom]

A lot of Southwest, Southside also doesn't have high speed internet, which makes it much less likely that even those who have computers spend a lot of aimless time surfing the blogs and gossip pages.

BVBL became the largest in NOVA because they tap into the key issue facing NOVA -- illegal immigration.

[Not Anon 8:53]

If you really think that is the "key" issue facing NOVA you need to go have a checkup with Dr. Reality.

[Gurduloo]

How can anyone not read BVBL? With headlines like "Illegal immigrant pushcart vendors are spreading leprosy and Marxism to our children!!!", it's impossible to resist. Mainstream journalists gave up this sort of yellow journalism decades ago and now some bloggers are reviving it. It would be just comical if not for the fact that all the politicians in PW, Manassas and Manassas Park are eager to do whatever Greg Letieq asks.

Your headline is wrong Ben. BVBK? Please adjust the accuracy rating :-)

Ben, your still popular from your campaign work down here in Richmond. :)

[Big Dog]

BVBL features BOTH
"incite" Greg and
"insight" Greg -read the
first with discretion.
Prince William/Manassas
has lousy coverage by
the traditional media -
a murder went unreported
in the local paper for
two days but BVBL had the
info on line PDQ. The
site has become, by
default, must reading
reading for many
locals.

[Grendel]

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2007/08/gift-from-god.html

Monday, August 20, 2007

A gift from God

George Allen
Candidate for Governor (presumed)
Commonwealth of Virginia

Dear Gov. Allen,

I like the cut of your jib, Governor. No one would have faulted you for taking a few years off from politics after losing your Senate seat. It was a tough race, and perhaps you could have used some time off to unwind by immersing yourself in your greatest passions, intimidating women and harassing black people.

But, you're not like that. You don't scamper away when you get bucked off; you jump right back on, just like you're doing now as you prepare for a gubernatorial run.

And by God, do you do it with style! Who'd have guessed that a guy who lost his senate seat because he's a racist would be giving campaign speeches at Jimmy the Greek's Restaurant less than nine-months later. That has to be about the biggest "fuck you" a politician could give his detractors (short of an Alberto Gonzales performance at a congressional hearing).

I can't find a transcript of your speech, but I'm sure you made the most of the appearance by echoing Jimmy the Greek's infamous opposition to blacks becoming coaches because "The slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid. That’s where it all started… [If blacks] take over coaching jobs like everybody wants them to, there’s not going to be anything left for the white people."

I think it's a smart move to embrace your greatest weakness and turn it into a strength, and I hope you'll continue to run a campaign based on traditional confederate values. Have you considered making a return to segregation a central issue in your campaign?

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

[Jonathan Mark]

"""all the politicians in PW, Manassas and Manassas Park are eager to do whatever Greg Letieq asks."""

I wish that were the case.

Unfortunately, it is not even remotely true. BVBL has been very much opposed to the candidacy of Faisal Gill for the HOD-51 Republican nomination. Gill is the former chief lobbyist for the imprisoned Abdurahman Alamoudi's American Muslim Council.

Yet the PWCRC head honchos endorsed Faisal Gill at Gill's 3/31/07 campaign kickoff in Woodbridge. Speaking from the podium at the event were Court Clerk nominee Michele McQuigg, 2009 gubernatorial wannabe Bill Bolling, 2008 congressional wannabe (and current PWC chair Corey Stewart), and Senator Ken Cuccinelli (S-37), who drove down from Fairfax County. Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist was present at the event along with American Conservative Union board member Suhail Khan.

In addition, Stewart told attendees at a Woodbridge mosque recently that "I put Faisal Gill on the ballot."

It doesn't sound as if McQuigg, Stewart, Bolling and Cuccinelli are following Greg L's wishes with respect to Gill's candidacy. Moreover, these candidates are also ignoring the opinions of the vast majority of posters on BVBL.

These candidates think that they can make up in support from Faisal Gill's people what they lose in support from the BVBL community. But I say they are wrong, their misquided alliance with Gill will hurt them far more than it helps them.

Bolling, McQuigg and Stewart sold their honor for office, and in the end they will have neither.

[Loudoun Insider]

BVBL is always entertaining and is my favorite daily read. Sure greg may be a bit over the top at times, but aren't all bloggers? Well at least the popular ones tend to be. Some people need to lighten up a bit.

[Bubba]

We're too busy out here making moonshine, playing our banjos, making furniture, harveting tobacco, watching dirt track racing, mining coal,, and laughing at people whose lives are defined by the time they spend in a volvo commuting back and forth to jobs they hate in northern virginia.