There has been a lot of talk lately about some Hillary supporters who will actively or passively work against Obama if/when he gets the nomination. One place where these supporters seem to hang out is www.hillaryis44.com
So I decided to compare the userbase of dailykos and hillaryis44 in an attempt to see how widespread this viewpoint is. I have downloaded 100,000 recent posts by users of both sites and looked at the userbase associated with those posts.
The dailykos first:
The 100,000 posts were written my 8389 unique users, with the most prolific user posting 813 times. The top 20 posters have posted almost 8% of the total and the top 550 users posted half of all the posts. 1219 users are "regulars", where regulars are defined as having posted 20+ times,the regulars have posted 68% of all posts..
Now for hillaryis44:
The 100,000 posts were written by 310 users. That is NOT a typo. Three hundred and ten users wrote all 100,000 posts. The most prolific user posted 7170 times. The top 20 users have posted 45% off all posts and 24 users have posted half of all posts. 171 users are "regulars", where regulars are defined as having posted 20+ times, the regulars have posted more than 99% of all posts.
The top poster on dailykos with 813 posts would be no higher than 63rd on the list at hillaryis44.
We shouldn't try to read too much into these numbers but we cannot ignore the fact that the discussion on hillaryis44 is dominated by a very small number of users. If the views discussed on hillaryis44 were widespread then I would expect that the discussion would not be dominated by such a small group of users.
Update:
My very first diary and I made the rec list, thanks all.
Update 2:
Some are asking about timeframes, so here are some ballpark figures.
The 100K posts on hillaryis44 were posted between Jan 3/08 and May 10/08, or about 18 weeks. The 100K posts on DailyKos is much harder to determine due to the way the files were stored, but it would be approx 2-3 weeks of posting.