Stephen Tall

Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum before conference to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. More than 550 party members have responded, and we’re publishing the full results.

Guardian’s CiF tops poll: almost half Lib Dem members read it

LDV asked: Which other politics blogs (if any) do you read? Please tick all that apply.

Guardian Comment is Free 46%
Huffington Post 31%
ConservativeHome 30%
Lib Dem Blogs aggregator 28%
UK Polling Report 28%
Guido Fawkes 25%
Nick Robinson’s blog 24%
PoliticalBetting 24%
Economist blogs 17%
Liberal Conspiracy 17%
New Statesman ‘The Staggers’ 15%
Spectator Coffee House 12%
Telegraph blogs 10%
LabourList 9%
Paul Waugh 9%
Political Scrapbook 9%
Left Foot Forward 8%
Dale & Co. 6%
FullFact 5%
John Rentoul 5%
Labour Uncut 5%
LSE British politics and policy 5%
Alastair Campbell 4%
John Redwood’s Diary 3%
Stumbling and Mumbling 3%
Tim Worstall 3%
Harry’s Place 2%
Left Futures 1%
Slugger O’Toole 1%
The F-Word Blog 1%
Other (please specify) 8%
None of them 22%

Five points worth noting, I think:

• Interesting to see the dominant market position of Comment is Free, with 46% of Lib Dem members in our survey reading it;
• Also interesting to note how Huffington Post has quickly established itself;
• Almost four-in-five (78%) Lib Dem members read at least one political blog;
• Group blogs now dominate the blogosphere — UK Polling Report and Nick Robinson are the only one-man-band blogs read by more than one-in-10 of you;
• Of the 8% who specified ‘Others’ only Daily Kos was mentioned more than once (along with some Lib Dem bloggers).

* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum, and also writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.