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Colorado’s conservative political blogs are unquestionably rising in popularity and relevancy. Even though liberal blogs get most of the attention from Colorado’s major news outlets, Coloradans are looking more and more to conservative blogs for political news and opinions.
In a 5280 Magazine article from a few years ago, a contributor to a popular liberal political blog explored the state of conservative blogs in Colorado. The article opined that conservative blogs lagged far behind liberal blogs in popularity and relevancy. The author claimed, “For whatever reason, liberal-minded people seem to be more engaged in local politics in the blog world than Republicans.” Fortunately, the rapid growth of conservative blogs in recent years has changed the online landscape.
Recently, CompleteColorado.com (http://www.completecolorado.com) broke a story regarding a controversy involving a potential gubernatorial candidate. Quickly, the Denver Post jumped on the story. The reaction by Denver’s only major daily print newspaper provides one example of the increased relevancy of conservative blogs.
While the story has provided the conservative blog CompleteColorado greater notoriety, other conservative blogs are also actively contributing to the conservative discourse. After a few quick web searches, the results provide a variety of conservative blogs that fit a range of interests.
Examples of popular conservative sites include Rocky Mountain Right (http://www.rockymountainright.com), People’s Press Collective (http://www.peoplespresscollective.org), Mount Virtus (http://bendegrow.com), Election Neutrality Now (http://www.electionneutralitynow.com), Free Colorado (http://www.freecolorado.com) and Rossputin (http://rossputin.com).
In addition, a number of Colorado’s conservative politicians have developed policy blogs. For example, former State Treasurer Mark Hillman (http://www.markhillman.com), former State Senate President John Andrews (http://www.backboneamerica.net) and former U.S. Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez (http://www.alineofsight.com) have each developed popular and thoughtful policy blogs.
These examples are hardly a complete list of conservative blogs in Colorado, but the examples do serve as a decent listing of the more active sites.
Over the last few years, a growing number of conservative blogs are providing relevant and timely news and opinions to Coloradans seeking a conservative viewpoint on local politics. These conservative blogs present online alternatives to traditional news sources, of which many conservatives have grown weary and view as overly biased. Consequently, liberal opinion journalists can no longer justly claim that conservative bloggers trail dramatically to liberals in Colorado’s blogosphere.
Colorado’s conservative blogs are unmistakably on the rise.
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