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By request, here are the top 100 liberal political websites. There were plenty of surprises. Most of the feminist and gay sites didn't make it, nor did Ralph Nader or Code Pink.

Several of you who liked the Top 100 Conservative Political Websites have asked for a compilation of the top liberal sites. Here is that list, with some additional notes about the compilation of it. (For a discussion of the methodology used to compile the lists, please read the description on the conservative list) There were over 2,000 personal blogs listed as uncategorized on alexa.com, which included political blogs mixed in with every other kind of blog, so hopefully I caught most of them, if not please let me know and I'll get them added. Unlike the conservative websites, there were far more newspapers that could arguably be included, so I tried to include at least the biggest ones, if I missed any that clearly should have been included please let me know.

The disappointments? The National Organization of Women wasn't in the top 100, coming in at a low 238,371, and NARAL , Code Pink and Emily's List didn't even come close to making the list. GLAAD was the only major gay site that made it, ironically coming in immediately after NOW at 247,173. The New Republic only came in at 40,077 probably because of its subscription-only service. The Brookings Institute was even further below, at 283,197. For those of us who watch a lot of political talk TV, it shows that organizations like the Brookings Institute which frequently has guests on those shows aren't necessarily very popular on the web. (the correlation there on the right is the Independent Women's Forum , which frequently has its members as guests on political talk shows but they didn't even come close to making the top conservative sites)

I left out some sites that struck me as more close to moderate, such as The Economist (ranked 3,751), The Atlantic Monthly (ranked 11,427), C-span (ranked 58,719) and stateline.org which is part of Pew Charitable Trusts (ranked 277,038). Sites that seemed like generic foreign policy think tanks were left off. I didn't include any of the sites that were too philosophical, like marxists.org (ranked 24,163). 

I attempted to keep the total around 100 sites, but with the inevitable oversight of a few sites when I compiled the conservative list last week, another 25 or so popped up. Interestingly, however, by setting the limit at sites rated under 460,000, the number of liberal and conservative websites is about equal. Of course, there are a larger percentage of liberal newspapers, but as newspapers are increasingly moving away from print and going to the web, it all evens out.   

1. MSNBC (part of MSN) – 2
2. BBC (UK) – 35
3. ABC (part of go.com) – 48
4. CNN – 76
5. New York Times – 185
6. Reuters – 513
7. The Guardian (UK) – 544
8. Washington Post – 616
9. San Francisco Chronicle – 1,051
10. NBC – 1,148
11. Los Angeles Times – 1,219
12. Time Magazine – 1,198
13. Boston Globe – 1,223
14. CBC News (Canadian) – 1,661
15. Slate – 1,777
16. Salon – 1,837
17. Indymedia – 2,152
18. PBS – 2,308
19. CBS News – 2,462
20. BuzzFlash – 2,767
21. Huffington Post – 2,804
22. Arizona Republic – 3,163
23. NPR – 3,304
24. New York Daily News – 4,542
25. Daily Kos – 4,878
26. Raw Story – 5,309
27. CNBC – 6,366
28. Alternet – 8,629
29. Democratic Underground – 12,107
30. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – 13,492
31. The New Yorker – 13,710
32. Village Voice – 14,201
33. Amnesty International – 15,099
34. Talking Points Memo – 16,788
35. Michael Moore – 17,148
36. Common Dreams – 17,441
37. Wonkette – 21,483
38. BartCop – 22,945
39. The Nation – 23,911
40. CounterPunch – 24,640
41. Truthout – 26,300
42. Now Toronto (Canada) – 27,504
43. Bad Subjects – 29,435
44. Information Clearing House – 30,140
45. TPM Café – 31,030
46. Move on – 32,735
47. Zmag – 33,906
48. World Socialists – 34,162
49. Newsweek – 38,205
50. Washington Monthly – 43,499
51. New Republic – 40,077
52. Air America – 40,749
53. Planned Parenthood – 46,228
54. Harper’s – 47,126
55. Robert Scheer’s TruthDig – 47,661
56. Eschaton – 48,706
57. Mother Jones – 50,085
58. Buzz Machine – 50,547
59. My DD – 51,378
60. Derechos Human Rights – 52,561 (Spain)
61. OneWorld – 55,443
62. Open Secrets – 58,878
63. ACLU – 61,687
64. Anti-Defamation League – 74,850
65. American Prospect – 77,025
66. Democrat National Committee – 79,312
67. Reporters Without Borders – 80,352
68. Informed Comment – 85,093
69. Spiked Online – 99,997
70. Smirking Chimp – 89,759
71. New Statesman – 90,768
72. Talk Left – 104,237
73. Dave Cullen – 115,949
74. Democrats.com – 123,578
75. Working for Change – 123,870
76. Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review – 124,728
77. The Drudge Retort – 125,053
78. Andrew Sullivan – 129,099
79. Human Rights Campaign – 129,463
80. FAIR – 133,841
81. Fact Check – 139,642
82. New Internationalist – 141,615
83. Indymedia Ireland (Ireland) – 141,980
84. Le Monde (France – in English) – 142,655
85. Tom Paine – 150,510
86. Progressive Wisdom – 156,531
87. Utne Reader – 162,915
88. Southern Poverty Law Center – 164,462
89. The Randi Rhodes Show – 164,539
90. Greg Palast – 167,347
91. Third World Traveler – 170,882
92. Project for the Old American Century – 175,464
93. The Progressive – 176,598
94. Asian Human Rights Commission (Asia) – 180,797
95. Counter Currents – 192,860
96. Workers of the World Unite – 197,872
97. Cursor – 200,402
98. Urban Institute – 210,391
99. Global Exchange – 217,454
100. Roll Call – 224,985
101. Corporate Watch – 225,947
102. National Organization of Women – 238,371
103. GLAAD – 247,173
104. Stay Free Magazine – 251,512
105. The Stephanie Miller Show – 266,999
106. Schwartz Report – 267,153
107. No Peace Without Justice – 270,335
108. Consortium News – 276,153
109. Brookings Institute – 283,197
110. International Federation of Human Rights Leagues – 291,686
111. Rabble.ca (Canada) – 296,143
112. Act Blue – 299,537
113. The Globalist – 325,874
114. Carter Center – 328,027
115. Irregular Times – 328,765
116. Lies – 329,289
117. Brady Campaign – 349,535
118. Roger L. Simon – 391,751
119. Human Rights First – 410,484
120. Angry Bear – 423,484
121. Feminist Majority – 427,949
122. Media Transparency – 458,097