No Quarter A Major Player in the Presidential Race
By Un coup de des on June 25, 2008 at 1:50 PM in Bloggers
No Quarter’s detractors can refer to us as fringe and irrelevant, but Presidential Watch 08’s map of the 297 most influential blogs writing on the Presidential race reveals we are one of the few progressive websites that is actually shaping and determining the terms of debate this election cycle.
An explanation of Presidential Watch 08’s map and methodology is available at this URL.
No Quarter, according to PW08, is read by both Democrats and Republicans, and it has been acknowledged by many media outlets.
Because this Web site receives links from a wide array of web sites — not one set of websites that mindlessly repeat the same information ad nauseum — we are located not at the periphery but at the center of the map.
Thank you for helping us keep the entire electorate informed. Granting no quarter to Barack Obama and John McCain, we intend to remain unbought and unbossed this election cycle.
Thank you for reading, and thank you for your continued support.
This site has been invaluable in delivering the news the media deems unnecessary to the American voter. Thank you Larry, and all others for such an excellent resource.
Ditto…
Fighting for Truth, Justice and the American way
WTG NQ, woohoo!!
I want to thank you and congratulate you, too, Larry and Susan ! I may not comment every day, but I read it every day. I thank you both for providing this spot for us all.
Ditto!
THank you Larry, and thanks to all of your topnotch bloggers.
WOW. congratulations.
Hillary or McCain!!!!!!
Larry/Susan/Truthteller and all bloggers:
I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate the hard work. If not you, who? If not now, when?
no quarter rawks!!!!
keep up the great work!
a. hillary
b. mccain
America First!
Naturally……..No Quarter isn’t a nanny site. This site even trust that threads about obscure conspiracy theories will wear out.
I totally support this site’s philosophy of open communcations.
I was/am a proponent of this communications theory even in corporate.
It works.
Let the information out. Controlling doesn’t work.
Just let people flip-flop until they settle.
Present it all. Good, bad, and ugly.
It WILL
No Quarter has become THE site I go to regularly throughout the day to get real, unvarnished, honest information. Thank you, Larry and gang, for providing us with a site we can trust.
Y’all are the best!
Dang, my post was lost.
Anyway, Larry, I’m interested in Iraq and Iran discussions.
Please share.
Great post. It’s nice to be appreciated. And to be in such esteemed company.
Congratulations Larry and all!!
I must say it doesn’t surprise me at all…. this site has been a huge information source for all those little blogs out there…. I for one even though i am new to posting here am not knew to this site.
Keep up the fight for TRUE Democracy !
If Pat Buchanan can write a book about Where the Right Went Wrong, Democrats should be able to ask analogous questions. Takeover by extreme left factions has destroyed them much as the neocon virus ruined Republicans.
Super! Congratulations for staying in there. I know this site makes a difference. Thank you.
Cool.
Hillary or McCain.
Never Obama!
Just Say No Deal:
http://justsaynodeal.com/
Puma pac
http://blog.pumapac.org/
Damn right!
I love no quarter, my daily reading!!!
McCain and Bambi are tied at 45% in daily Gallup tracking. This is the first time they are actually tied since bambi stole the nomination.
He presumptively stole the nomination.
LOL!
Quit it, That is the third time this week I have spewed soda on the screen from laughing. lol
Hillary or McCain 08 !!!!!!!
I was sent here by the keyboard manufacturers as sales were slumping. You can remove your tinfoil hat now.
I love NQ and I thank God for Larry and Susan and their space here and the contributors who work to informt he public and give us all a voice.
Got a thank you from Big Ed OReillys campaign in MASS
this guy is the real deal I think!!
Please consider Ed OReilly, the Dem running against Kerry in MASS for Senate
please take a look at his positions and if you think he is a good candidate and you are in or out of MASS please think about helping the campaign, calling or walking or donating
I am on the other side of the country and I am trying to get some new life in the old Congress especially to replace the sell outs who are backing Uhhbama prior to June 4th and couldnt tell their constituents why, but took a payout..
http://www.edoreilly.com
thanks for listening and thanks for being here and thank YOU un coup de des, for this post reflecting people are reading and being here and speaking out can make an impact..
BOOYAH!!!
Gina
I just e-mailed the O’Reilly site and volunteered to make calls.
We can do the strut when windsurfer boy loses his job. Maybe he can be a mailboy for the Heinz co.
I used to call train crews for Boston , Springfield, New Haven Ct and New York.
What great people they are. Do not ever try to fool them.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS.
Please help unseat Pelosi. Cindy Sheehan is running to take her seat. She needs grassroots help gathering signatures in San Fran to place her on the ballot. Need to collect signatures by August.
http://www.cindyforcongress.org
Holy crap! I thought these were private conversations. (I was being funny for those who are snark challenged).
Thanks Larry and Susan and all at No Quarter who are working so hard to keep us informed!
And cOnGrAtUlAtIOnS!!!
Kudos on the growth NQ. Thanks for staying frosty and keeping real.
OT; Now if anyone has any illusions about the warrentless wiretapping and FISA flip-flop bY BO, the technology used in creating the blog map is fascinating.
Hope Hill and Bill are reading NQ!
But yeah! Thanks to NQ. Its a breath of sanity in this weird and pathetic election.
NoQuarter is also on my daily reading list. H/T to SusanUnPC for her contributions to the HillarysVoice group and to taking a stand a long time ago on MyDD.
True but more a major thorn in Obama’s backside. And I’m loving every minute of it.
Great Work Larry & Susan, this is my favorite website!!!
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
Whoohoo..thanks timepassages. Natives against Obama..whoohoo. Obama thinks everyone but his elite group are dumb.
Can we see right through him?
Go Natives.
I heard that!
Keep up the good work!
Congratulation! I know this is my first stop every morning!
correction Congratulation! = Congratulations!
and my last stop every night…love it!!!!
I found No Quarter from a poster at MySpace.I have not return to My Space after that. I love NoQuarterUSA, my refuge.Congratulations, Larry, Susan and the rest of the article contributors.From the bottom of my heart, “THANK YOU!” for your patriotism.
Hillary or McCain ‘08 !
God Save America from Obama!
As it should!
This blog had been one of the few rays of consistency for me in those troubled, confusing times when progressive turned freeper, media picked it’s pampered idiot from the other party which in turn proceeded to steal elections like the original media darlings. The blogosphere that was supposed to be the media watchdog blended with them and many internet sites began harbingers for what may be, squelching dissent, encouraging personal abuse with the blessings of the candidate they were shilling for (thanks to No Quarter for exposing that link too) So, thanks for the sanity sanctuary, No Quarter and may you grow more influential and read by all.
Let your vote be heard. go here to poll vote weekly.
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll/
The current Poll shows McCain winning all 57 (i mean 50 states) since June 20.
Go McCain!
Wow. The poll has the entire nation red!
McCian 61%-Obama 39%Super D’s are you listening? Do you want a Dem in office? Seat all the delegates in the proper was they voted or have another 4 years of Republican rule with Kerry gone and Pelosi out of the picture.
Dean will follow them out the door.
Either way they are out the door.
no wonder so many obama trolls come here and try to disrupt our dialogs….. i come here everyday for some truth, we are not going to find it listening to the bought off media and press. what really bothers me if you are not an obama fan, you must be a racist…….and any and all questions about obama are off limits at other sites. great going, noquarter !
Congrats and thanks Larry and Susan. I came to this sight after someone at TM mentioned it some time ago. I check it off and on throughout the day to see what’s new. Love reading the blogs even tough noone ever responds to mine. I mostly just read and stay informed about the goings on in “baby ducky Obama’s world.?” The bad stuff just flies off him like water on a little duck’s back.
Great. And all you had to do was pretend “at the center” means out on the edge, and “not at the periphery” means out on the edge.
The map puts noquarter at the extreme periphery of the blogosphere (read the explanation and you will learn that distance from the center and size of the dot are the important metrics. noquarter is a very small dot on the edge. Which is fine, but it is comical that, as usual, this is spun into being a plus. And the readers all fall in line and say yes, great, congratulations.
Scary.
What took you so long?
This was the best blog to me before this article was posted and I think we are only celebrating what we already knew. Rock on No Quarter!
Yes, you’re rather slow today Ted. Age catching up with you?
It does seem to be a troll irritant though, Teddy. Your rock awaits, now just crawl back under it.
I’m just stating facts. LJ misrepresented what the map says about noquarter, and I am setting the record straight.
I visit numerous blogs, and, by far, folks here tend to automatically reject non-compliant comments with name-calling and “you are a troll”, etc.
If you disagree with my comment, why not debate the facts. What do you accomplish with a statement like “crawl under a rock”? DO I live under a rock because I understand how to interpret the map and decide to correct the error LJ has published?
Note I am not knocking Hillary (I think she would have been a fine candidate) or pushing Obama (I do think he is miles better than McCain), I am just correcting factual errors. If that makes me a troll, then so be it. A troll I am.
Sorry, I’m going to have to agree with the troll here. I read “in the center” and looked at the picture and saw a clear disconnect. No Quarter is not at the center. It’s on the side, but still linked up pretty well.
I think it’s great that NoQuarter is in the top 300. That’s a very positive achievement. But try to contain the hyperbole…otherwise, you are just feeding the trolls.
Ted, you are just JEALOUS! No one from the intellectual bloggers of NQ are even visiting your idol’s website, which is mighty SCARY !
You are just a kj (kill joy).That’s your trade mark:KJ!
No Quarter, way to go! Thanks for being there. You’ve become my first and last stop every day. Onward!
#1 ON GOOGLE POSITION! AT THE TOP!
TIP JAR ANYONE?
This is wonderful news! Congratulations to all who write such wonderful expose here on No Quarter.
I would hope that this site continues to keep intact its independent arm of the progressive body-blogosphere and does not find itself at the mercy of idiots who would be so easily inclined to ruin this wonderful oasis of free thought and speech. God knows how scarce this venue of communication is in our current political milieu.
Thank you Larry, Susan, Uppity Woman, Truthteller, PaganPower, Medusa et al. for your earnestly informative and factual journalism. I truly appreciate having this place to come to and celebrate the gift of progressive ideas in a fashion that is not censored, limited or mocked.
if this is sunday til saturday..thaen it must
be NO QUARTER…..thanks Larry and Susan
http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM Says Congrats No Quarter!
Bravo Larry and Susan!! The truth wins every time and I consider NQ my main stop several times daily!!
And Susan, I have seen you attacked at dkos, Booman and Mydd and you never gave up or withered. Strong women like you and Hillary will prevail!!
Does that site have a typed-out list of the full 297 sites? I am having a hard time finding it and trying to navigate the map and click on each dot is driving me nuts.
use the search function on the left of the map and type in even a protion of the site name to get results
Thanks, man.
*thumbs up*
Help! Pass the Etch-A-Sketch!
Well done, sir, madam.
Hillary in August. Nothing less.
Congratulations! And you’re read not only by Republicans and Democrats but Independents, too.
The fact that you had to move to a bigger server should’ve been a clue to some of these trolls that you’re far from insignificant.
You people are scum.
Coming from you, I’ll take that as a compliment.
MI5,
Certainly no one from MI5 would be so illiterate as to assume that people who blog here are “scum”. Since you refer to yourself (implicitly so) as someone who might admire the Queen’s English, I would suggest you fly home like a good homing pigeon and pick up the scummy crumbs thrown to your ilk. Birdbrain!
Thank you, No Quarter, Larry and Susan + team for keeping democracy alive on the internet. You have created a space for a new democratic party to come into existence. -A new party based on FDR, humanist and modernist values.
Kudos!!!!!!!!
And they say you are a irrelevant Larry! HA! I don’t see those KOOKS shaping anything but pottery!
Also……..
I’m jealous Larry and Susan! When My site grows up I want it to be just like yours..LOL
As an aside, Rezkowatch, and many of the local Chicago bloggers, including Bob Baar, have been excellent resources.
Now to take a closer look at Mr. McCain, and his group.
Red Herring -
the real work is to get the truth out about the disaster in progress that is the Democratic National Committee of 2008.
here ya go..
If not Hillary then Mccain
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My Friends,
The Straight Talk Express bus has become a symbol of my campaign’s openness, honesty and access - true democracy at work. Some of my favorite memories of the campaign so far are of riding on the Straight Talk Express across this great country, enjoying unscripted, spirited conversation about the issues with members of the press and other passengers. I believe voters deserve a close, unfiltered examination of our presidential candidates. This give-and-take of ideas is a true example of democracy in action.
I’d like to take the opportunity today to invite you to join me on the Straight Talk Express for a day of conversation and campaigning.
Our last “Ride the Bus” contest was such a success, we’ve decided to launch it again. As a token of my appreciation for your financial support, any donation you make between today and next Monday at midnight, will qualify you to win a seat aboard the Straight Talk Express. I hope you’ll consider joining me by making a donation right away.
http://www.johnmccain.com/ridethebus
If I am given the great honor of serving as the next President of the United States, I will make certain that my administration is open and forthright about the issues facing this country, and I will keep this great conversation going that began on the Straight Talk Express.
I’ve said before that I’m running to be president of all Americans and the Straight Talk Express enables me to travel around our great country to meet directly with Americans to discuss their thoughts, ideas and concerns. We’re facing many great challenges as a nation, and I am running for president to solve these challenges through government reform.
I hope you will join my campaign for reform today and make a contribution before next Monday. Remember, with any donation you make you’ll be entered to win a trip aboard the Straight Talk Express for the day. Thank you, as always, for your tireless support.
Sincerely,
John McCain
P.S. I’ve never been afraid to do things a little differently on the campaign trail. I’ve never been afraid to hold town hall forums, engaging Americans in a discussion on the issues. My campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, has taken me to every corner of our great country to meet with Americans who agree we need reform. Today, you have the chance to win a day with me on the Straight Talk Express. You will be entered to ride the bus with me by making a donation of any amount before next Monday
As baghdadobama said above, there is a reason why so many Obama astrotrolls are assigned to this site. The site is read a ton and is looked to by all corners of the political spectrum.
Congratulations, No Quarter!
Once it became evident that sites such as Taylor Marsh’s and MyDD would abandon little d democracy for the Big D Democratic Coup Party, the importance of a site like No Quarter went through the roof. No surprise you guys have had to quadruple the server count.
Not only has the site handled the excess flow of traffic but everyone writing on the site (save the hopelessly outgunned astrotrolls) has seriously upped their game correspondingly. The work has been phenomenal and inspiring, and we are all the better for it and draw strength from what is being done here.
Like a Minuteman answering Paul Revere’s call, No Quarter has answered the Chicagoan takeover of the Democratic Party like a true hero and patriot.
Thank you, God Bless You and God Bless America. We will not allow this fraud to destroy our party and our nation.
Paul F. Villarreal
VillarrealSports.com
Congrats to all the contributors. You produce so much work I can barely keep up with you.
I have a few days off and will try to play catch up.
Thank you, all of you.
Isn’t it nice this site is right near Hillary’s!
Let me add my congratulations, too. You provide a forum where ideas can be expressed freely and information shared. Your articles and those of your guest writers give us the information we need to make political decisions. You don’t try to decide for us what our position(s) should be. Alas, I can’t say the same for much of the mainstream media. Keep up the outstanding work.
Looks like we might be beating the techies in the Obama/Axelrod blogosphere at their own game. It’s hard to keep the discipline up, but Larry and Susan are doing it!
Well deserved recognition. Keep up the good work.
mi5, really worried about your stupidity, but you have trouble being provocative, right?
This site is so enlightening and I’ve talked to so many people who have changed their minds about Obi because of this information.
PUMA & thank you Larry…and all…You are one of my paths to sanity in this fight for what’s fair.
lick on the site meter. 22,826 visits per day. Think about how many times you visit the site each day. Once, twice, five times? So that number probably represents about 10,000 different people visiting each day. 300,000,000 people in the US.
By comparison, Kos has 819,542 daily visits.
This site has a presence, but it is not a particularly large one.
I bet Kos is wondering where you are? Better scurry home. Most of Kos’ visitors are knuckle draggers, just like you.
The truth of the matter is that it’s not so much the number of visits NQ gets, it’s WHO visits. The grownups read NQ, and some of these grownups are very important.
You kids at the Daily Pimple read after spray painting Andre the Giant on freeway sidings. But that’s okay. Everyone has to start somewhere.
By comparison, Kos has 819,542 daily visits.
And I’ll bet your index finger is about worn out from clicking refresh so many times.
1st blog I go to everyday to get my fix. The Daily Kos, please. Isn’t it just barryobama.com, part 2?
Ted, meet Sisyphus. Sisyphus, Ted.
Oh wait, you two already know each other?
What? You’re the same guy?
So I hear they pay you guys with beer now, Ted. I mean Sisyphus.
Yeah, I heard that the brew they choose for the No Quarter Sisyphuses is “Rolling Rock.”
Ha ha ha.
Back up the hill with your stone, Sisyphus.
I love this site! Thank you Larry! I check it out at least twice a day sometimes more. I’ve blogged, I don’t know how many times.
I like the bloggers too. The Obmabots amuse me. All in all I enjoy the comments.
The articles are top-notch. I like how this site is continuously updated. It keeps it fresh & interesting to read.
From an ex-democrat (June 4th to be exact). Andf a current PUMA!
I feel the same way! Thank you Larry, Susan and NoQuarter’s fine writers and congratulations!
Also a PUMA! Purrrrrr!
I will agree this site has made one heck of an impact on reporting correctly the truth and issues that matter in this presidential race. But, when folks who do not want to know the truth or issues they are the ones that lash out and begin their name calling.
I can attest to the fact on a certain “Democratic” site the moderators were ready to black ball and stop one from posting that was against their guy and thus remove you from posting.
But I would rather post issues and truth then walk blindly not knowing what the heck my candidate was all about.
I do thank you.
Regardless of what happens in November, I RELISH the murmurs and dissent against the DNC.
The truth is, Obama has had everything handed to him on a silver platter his entire life. (Spare me the sob stories about his mom taking food stamps while a doctoral student!)
He expected to skate into the Presidency, and like Bush, would “figure things out” once he got there.
But now, that empty suit flim flam man has to WORK for a vote. Make him WORK for your vote. Make him SPEND SPEND SPEND his money, like he did in PA, OH, and TX. Show him that if he’s too tired and too much of a baby to run a HARD campaign, he’s not cut out for the hardest job in the world.
MAKE THE DEMOCRATS WORK TO WIN — because, really, besides being “not Republicans,” what, exactly, have Democrats accomplished or done these past few years they’ve had the power to demonstrate they’re any better?
Because the sad part is folks, if Obama skates in, and is the disaster I believe he will be, even if he’s a one term president WE’LL (the tax payers) be paying him a lifetime $400k/year pension and secret service detail till his skinny ass dies…. that’s a LOT of money to help Michelle Obama get over the pain she feels spending 10k/year on piano lessons for her kids.
But now, that empty suit flim flam man has to WORK for a vote. Make him WORK for your vote. Make him SPEND SPEND SPEND his money, like he did in PA, OH, and TX. Show him that if he’s too tired and too much of a baby to run a HARD campaign, he’s not cut out for the hardest job in the world.
NQ was my home page…until I started my own blog…LOL!!
However, it is the 2nd place I go to every day, I visit many times during the day, and it is the last place I go to at night!!! Thanks for all you do!!!
Gloria
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com
Yes Gloria. You have a good site too. I especially like this read.
http://www.insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/obama-clinton-ad-crossbreeding-spotted-by-unheardamericanvoices-and-not-to-the-benefit-of-clinton-who-sabatoged-her/
So many good sites..so little time
**NEWS UPDATE**
Potential VP for Obama Does Business With Iran…
More Info At: http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM
WASHINGTON, June 25 –Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama should not select former Sen. Sam Nunn to be his vice presidential running mate because of Mr. Nunn’s support for doing business with the terrorist state of Iran.
HAHAHAHA
Sam Nunn? More reason not to vote for Barky.
Sam Nunn is the worst.
Actually, this blog only represents the vindictive nature of people. If the bottom line is that you all are not voting for Obama, then what is the point of this blog. Basically, it means that you will cast your vote for McCain in November. However, anyone with half a brain can see that this blog is representing far more than not voting for Obama, it is spewing garbage to try and convince other people not to vote for Obama. If you were so confident in the fact that McCain will take the election, then what is the point in going from thread to thread with the same trash? When anyone says something good about Obama, it is wrong. Whenever there is some unsubstantiated “fact” put on any thread, it is automatically pounced on and gobbled up as the truth. When people come in to defend Obama, everyone who is against Obama immediately starts to insult and criticize the blogger. This is a democracy and people are going to vote for whomever they choose. I just wonder why is this movement based on anti-Obama riff-raff? It makes me question the motives behind this site. I am bracing myself for the insults that are sure to come; however, I am not an “Obot” or a “troll”…. I am just amazed that the people on this site are more into trying to convince people not to vote for Obama when our right as American’s is to vote for who we choose. If McCain is your choice then check his name on the ballot in November, end of story. The logic here just doesn’t tie-out.
Do Obama trolls believe in paragraphs?
I think they suffer from a “stream-feeling” disconnect. This happens when you let an “education” go to waste.
Didn’t Nixon say this?
“I am not an “Obot” or a “troll”…. ” see where that got him.
They only like Cliff Notes!<