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By coincidence, there are also 7 conservative blogs in the Technorati 100. Although there's nothing approaching the community of Daily Kos, there are several other similarities to the Liberal list.
Michelle Malkin put her mainstream media experience to use, with both a regular blog and a separate (joint) video blog (Hot Air). Power Line (often written as one word: Powerline) was Time magazine's 2004 Blog of the Year for their role in reporting the Rathergate scandal.
Hugh Hewitt has a talk radio show and wrote several books, including one on the role of blogs. News Busters is a more recent entrant, though is backed by an organization that has long been critical of the media. (Not quite a "think tank" but still an interesting parallel with the liberal Think Progress.) The Corner is a group blog from National Review Online (NRO), the Web presence of a leading conservative magazine.
Captain's Quarters is in many ways a "typical" political blog: one person's views on the events of the day. (I mean that as a complement.)
Our mission at Hot Air is to: • Expose new viewers to the revolutionary world of videoblogging, animation, and Internet broadcasting; • Recruit dynamic, enterprising people with creative skills from across the country to help us challenge (and CONQUER!) the dinosaur broadcast media outlets; • Laugh. Report. Laugh. Entertain. Laugh. Inform. Laugh. Make money. Did we say laugh?
Outside of the narrow confines of a "top" list, there are countless "rightroots" blogs. Many already have their eye on the presidential election; some (on both sides) have joined a campaign or are actively promoting a certain candidate. Others are still keeping their options open.
If you can think of good ways to try to measure how blogs influence the candidates, primaries and elections, please add a comment!
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