Rachel Maddow, the Nation, Daily Kos: Winners in AlterNet's Poll

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of Most Influential Progressives
Here are the media personalities and publications that progressives love most.

April 22, 2011
Rachel Maddow, host of the 9pm (EDT) evening news and opinion show on MSNBC, reigns supreme as the most influential progressive. Or, more accurately, the media personality progressives love most. Maddow pulled well ahead of Michael Moore, who just nipped Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for the second spot. (In the first AlterNet poll in December 2009, Bill Moyers was voted most influential, with Moore second and Maddow third.) Keith Olbermann, who recently left MSNBC, ranked fourth, and the veteran newscaster from Democracy Now! Amy Goodman, came in fifth, according to more than 8,000 AlterNet readers and others across the web who voted in our poll.

In the online magazine category, the Nation came out ahead of Mother Jones, with the Huffington Post finishing a strong third (despite selling itself to AOL for $315 million). TruthOut placed fourth, followed by Salon.com at fifth....

http://www.alternet.org/media/150711/rachel_maddow,_the_nation,_daily_kos:_winners_in_alternet's_poll_of_most_influential_progressives/?page=entire

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1. That warms the cockles of my heart whatever they are

Except I don't get why anybody would ever think the Whorefington Post was a "liberal" or "progressive" online magazine.

[Scuba]

2. All are worthy recipients. Congrats Rachel!!!

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3. Poll participants were asked to choose the 10 people,

magazines and blogs they thought most influential, with 1 being the most influential. Then for ranking in each category, each number 1 vote was given 10 points, number 2, 9 points, down to 1 point for a number 10.


Most Influential Progressives Total Points
Rachel Maddow 79,990
Michael Moore 57,574
Jon Stewart 56,139
Keith Olbermann 45,830
Amy Goodman 42,883
Noam Chomsky 38,326
Bill Maher 37,698
Paul Krugman 35,711
Stephen Colbert 32,850
Ed Schultz 31,878
Naomi Klein 28,921
Arianna Huffington 27,860
Matt Taibbi 24,889
Thom Hartmann 21,692
Chris Hayes 18,002
Seymour Hersh 16,279
Jim Hightower 16,140
Chris Hedges 15,848
Glenn Greenwald 15,817
Katrina van den Heuvel 15,057
Cenk Uygur 13,948
David Corn 12,539
Jeremy Scahill 11,586
Robert Greenwald 11,179
Cornel West 10,858
Frank Rich 10,295
Markos Moulitsas 9,742
Dylan Rattigan 8,579
Melissa Harris-Perry 7,697
Barbara Ehrenreich 7,630
Juan Gonzalez 7,505
Laura Flanders 7,223
Bob Herbert 7,184
Jane Hamsher 6,384
David Brock 6,096


Online Mags Total Points
The Nation 66,454
Mother Jones 59,323
Huffington Post 50,996
Truth Out 45,034
Salon 41,069
Think Progress 37,252
The Progressive 32,286
TruthDig 30,883
Common Dreams 27,999
TalkingPointsMemo 27,314
Raw Story 14,943
Utne Reader 13,536
TomDispatch 13,428
American Prospect 13,169
CounterPunch 11,680
ProPublica 11,553
Open Democracy 10,860
InTheseTimes 9,375
Yes! Magazine 8,685
Washington Monthly 8,111





Blogs Total Points
DailyKos 51,301
Media Matters 50,596
FireDogLake 42,129
Crooks And Liars 36,441
Ezra Klein-Washington Post 28,268
Right Wing Watch 15,682
Wonkette 12,199
Liberal Oasis 12,113
DrumBeat 10,905
JuanCole.com 10,367
Hullabaloo 9,208
AmericaBlog 8,443
Feministing 8,442
Matthew Yglesias 8,072
Atrios 7,953
Lawyers, Guns & Money 6,957
LeftCoaster 6,937
Political Animal 5,843
NoMoreMisterNiceBlog 5,458
AmericanBlog 4,791