Top Posts

These are the most viewed posts in a given month as determined by the number of hits on individual posts in that month.

October 2009

1. Harri Anne Smith Considers 2010 Options with Poll’s Help
2. Daily Headlines, Friday, 10/23/2009
3. October Federal Election Commission reports are available for AL-01 to AL-07 – updated
4. Strange backed by Senators Sessions and Shelby
5. State Representative Lea Fite Dead at 54 – Updated
6. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 10/15/2009
7. The Walker County Bingo ruling
8. State Representatives Listed by Age
9. ARRINGTON ENDORSES WHO(M)?
10. $13 Million: No phone, no website, no email, no bid

September 2009

1. Bill Johnson Comments on Riley Family Ties
2. Byrne Announces Leadership Team
3. Key Senate Dem Considers Party Switch
4. Interest in Supreme Court Races Picking Up
5. Michel Nicrosi “absolutely 100%” in AG Race
6. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 9/23/2009
7. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 9/24/2009
8. Rep. Steve Hurst Expected to Switch to GOP
9. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 9/16/2009
10. Johnson Calls for Riley to Recuse Himself

August 2009

1. Sparks to Announce ‘Most Innovative Campaign Initiative’
2. BCA Gubernatorial Candidate Forum: A Real Tweet
   
3. Two who are running, one who is not
4. Davis Leads in Gubernatorial Poll
5. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 8/13/2009
6. Daily Headlines, Monday, 8/17/2009
7. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 8/27/2009
8. Regarding the Gubernatorial Candidates’ Forum Last Night
9. Daily Headlines, Friday, 8/28/2009
10. Internal ALGOP Plan Targets 7 Senate, 10 House Seats

July 2009

1. Bobby Bright, Spokesmodel
2. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 7/8/2009
3. Considering the Open State Supreme Court Seat
4. AEA & Hubbert: Hands On or Off?
5. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 7/15/2009
6. Davis Expands Team This Week
7. Ron Sparks Campaign Appears Short of $25k Raised
8. Daily Headlines, Tuesday, 7/21/2009
9. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 7/9/2009
10. Alabama State Treasurer – Sherer is in

June 2009

1. Sign that Cobb is Headed for Gubernatorial Run
2. Albritton and Keahey in SD 22 Special Election Today
3. Comment on Draft Constitution of Mock Convention
4. Keahey Wins SD-22 – Updated
5. Paul Sanford Wins SD-7 Race
6. Byrne & Davis Strongest in New Poll for 2010 Governor’s Race
7. Jere Beasley Endorses Artur Davis for Governor
8. Friday Note
9. Daily Headlines, Monday, 6/29/2009
10. Governor’s Race Shaping Up

May 2009

1. Byrne Announces Campaign for Governor
2. Flood Shuts Down State House – Updated
3. Moore Fundraising Appeal
4. Alabama’s Most Statesmanlike Legislators
5. 2010 Governor’s Race: Bedford Out, Byrne Makes Ready
6. Tuesday Plow
7. AL-02: Roby Announces Candidacy
8. Luther Strange Announces Today
9. Bradley Byrne Announcement Coming
10. Strange Video Assails Current AG

April 2009

1. Senate Majority Leader Arrested for DUI
2. Surprise! Folsom Running for Re-election
3. Scenes from Montgomery’s Tea Party Yesterday
4. Daily Headlines, Monday, 4/27/2009
5. Hank Erwin Plans Lt. Gov. Campaign
6. Dems’ Gubernatorial Kaleidoscope
7. BREAKING: Kay Ivey Running for Governor in 2010
8. State Senator Zeb Little discusses his troubles
9. Bedford ‘Convinced I Can Win’
10. Strange Looks to Capture AG Spot

March 2009

1. Maybe They Meant Another Civil War
2. Governor ‘Pulls Out the Stops’
3. Federal Probe into AG King’s Office
4. AG Troy King to Run for Re-election in 2010
5. Most Statesmanlike Legislators?
6. Daily Headlines, Monday, 3/23/2009
7. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 3/12/2009
8. Ivey’s Name ID Poll
9. Jay Love Considers Bright Rematch in AL-02
10. Jack Hawkins Not Running for Governor

February 2009

1. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 2/25/2009
2. Senate Storm Watch
3. Artur Davis and the Curious Timing
4. House Speaker Gives Senate Incentive to Break Logjam
5. Artur Davis in the Parlor, Part Two
6. Artur Davis in the Parlor, Part One
7. Drayton Nabers to be Economic Stimulus Czar
8. Artur Davis Announces His Gubernatorial Candidacy Today
9. Daily Headlines, Sunday, 2/8/2009
10. Rob Riley Not a 2010 Candidate

January 2009

1. Anzalone-Liszt Poll for Artur Davis and 2010 Governor’s Race
2. Bentley ‘90% Sure’ He’s Running for Governor
3. An Unnecessarily Early Look at SD 22
4. Considering the Court of Criminal Appeals
5. Thinking Aloud
6. Troy King Campaign Update
7. SD-7 Candidates File Campaign Finance Reports
8. Sen. Pat Lindsey Dies Unexpectedly
9. Davis Signals Gubernatorial Run
10. McClain, Pettagrue guilty on all counts

2008 – Entire Year

1. Investigation of U.S. Atty Perjury Charge is ‘Slow-walked’
2. Troy King ‘Not Going to Resign’
3. Troy King, Pt. 2
4. Country Singer George Jones on CD-2
5. State School Board Bans ‘Double-Dipping’
6. Karl Rove’s Link to Siegelman’s Prosecution
7. Exploding AG Rumors
8. Top 40 Most Influential Non-Elected Alabamians, Part 1
9. New Alabama Line
10. Bobby Bright Picks a Party

Note: Stats for the last three days of October were not available.

December 2008

1. Larry Langford Arrested
2. Kay Ivey in 2010 Governor’s Race
3. ‘Draft Kay Ivey’ Site
4. Langford Indictment Unsealed
5. Daily Headlines, Thursday, 12/18/2008
6. Fishing Expeditions
7. Surveying the SD-7 Field – Updated
8. Daily Headlines, Wednesday, 12/3/2008
9. Daily Headlines, Tuesday, 12/30/2008
10. Sanford First Announced Candidate for SD-7

November 2008

1. Last Night’s Election – Who Had a Good Night? Bad Night?
2. Griffith Starts Staff Selection
3. Map of Which Counties Voted More Democratic or Republican
4. Daily Headlines, Tuesday, 11/18/2008
5. Difference in Voting for Dem President, 2004 & 2008, by County
6. Alabama Dems Pick Up a Congressional Seat
7. Daily Headlines, Monday, 11/24/2008
8. Ivey Recognized by RGA as ‘Future Leader’
9. Legislative Dispatch: Alabama’s 9 Electoral Votes
10. Tonight’s State Results Coming In

October 2008

1. Endorsement at What Cost?
2. Anzalone-Lizst Shows Close AL-02 Race
3. DCCC Back in AL-02
4. AL-02: Republican Smith Endorses Democrat Bright
5. AL-02: On the Smith Endorsement
6. Poll Looks at 2010 Governor’s Race – Updated
7. Latest Alabama Line
8. AL-02: New Love Ad
9. DCCC Ad Running in AL-02
10. Candidates’ Bad, Good, and Better News

Note: Stats for last three days of October were lost in a glitch and are not figured in.

September 2008

1. AL-02: Bright Ad Out Today
2. AL-05: Parker’s Heavier Gloves
3. AL-02: Everett in New Love Ad
4. Freedom’s Watch Ad in AL-02
5. AL-02: Bright Ad Pushes Back – UPDATED
6. AL-02: New Bright Ad
7. AL-02: New Love Ad
8. Rep. Artur Davis Moving into New State
9. AL-02: Large Love Lead in Latest Poll
10. Legislative Dispatch: Palin a Great Pick by McCain

August 2008

1. Investigation of U.S. Atty Perjury Charge is ‘Slow-walked’
2. Mayor Crosses Aisle to Endorse Bright in AL-02
3. Here’s Your Sign
4. WSJ on Bobby Bright
5. AL-02 Poll: Bright Up by 10
6. New AL-02 Poll Reported This Morning
7. Jay Love’s Ad Shows Energy
8. AL-02: For Love or Money
9. AL-02: One Poll, Two Polls
10. Artur Davis & New Poll #’s

July 2008

1. Troy King ‘Not Going to Resign’
2. Troy King, Pt. 2
3. Country Singer George Jones on CD-2
4. Investigation of U.S. Atty Perjury Charge is ‘Slow-walked’
5. Exploding AG Rumors
6. John McCain Website Scrubs King’s Name – Or Not! – Updated
7. Planned Troy King Press Conference Now Off
8. AL-02 Ad: Gov Against Love
9. AL-02: Bright Spot in Dothan
10. Nationwide on McArthur’s Side

June 2008

1. Details of Smith Campaign Changes
2. AL-02: What Do Love’s DC Endorsements Mean?
3. AL Primary: Who Had a Good Night?
4. Today’s Election Predictions
5. AL-02: Smith Radio Ad Out
6. AL-02: Smith Voted for Bill She Criticizes Love for Supporting
7. Today’s Election Results
8. Smith Campaign Release on Staff Changes
9. AL-02: Beason on Smith’s ‘Path to Victory’
10. GOP State Senators Endorse Smith for AL-02

May 2008

1. AL-02 Poll #’s
2. Smith Leaves Morning Forum Early
3. Smith Bolsters Campaign Funds in CD-2 Race
4. Harri Anne Smith’s 1st TV Ad Airs Tonight
5. Riley: ‘Never Run’ Again
6. Harri Anne Smith’s Expedient Company
7. Segall Polling Memo for CD-3
8. Race for the PSC Presidency
9. Big Tent Needs a Stake Holder
10. What’s Love Got to Do with It?

April 2008

1. Smith Leaves Morning Forum Early
2. Rogers’ Rank Disappointment
3. Club for Growth Endorses Sen. Smith
4. Segall Raises Quarter Million
5. AL-02 Bits
6. CD-2 Debates Scheduled
7. Cavanaugh’s Inside Track
8. Host Committee for Cavanaugh Fundraiser
9. Grimes on House Filibuster, 2nd Congressional Race
10. Horton Hears a Boo

March 2008

1. Top 40 Most Influential Non-Elected Alabamians, Part 1
2. State School Board Bans ‘Double-Dipping’
3. Top 40 Most Influential Non-Elected Alabamians, Part 2
4. Top 40 Most Influential Non-Elected Alabamians, Part 4
5. Harri Anne Smith Trips Over a Poll
6. Griffith’s Not-So Good Friday Announcement
7. Top 40 Most Influential Non-Elected Alabamians, Part 3
8. Butler Switching Parties for AL-05 Race
9. Early Look at AL-05 Field
10. John Hannah Drafted for GOP Primary?

February 2008

1. State Rep in ‘Physical Altercation’
2. 60 Minutes: Siegelman, Simpson and Rove
3. Siegelman Piece Not on 60 Minutes Tonight – Updated
4. State School Board Bans ‘Double-Dipping’
5. State Representative’s Office Raided
6. Representative Speaks After Co-Workers Subpoenaed
7. Battle for Control of 2-Year College System Continues
8. CBS News: Siegelman Piece On for Sunday
9. AG Unhappy about McCain Event
10. Continuing 2 Year College Investigation

January 2008

1. The Most Important Legislative Special Election in the History of Alabama
2. AG King Ready for Flak
3. HD 12 Reports Coming In – Updated: Fields Wins
4. HD 12: Who Had a Good Night?
5. State Representative Arrested Today
6. Bradley Byrne and AEA
7. Why Alabama Democrats Should Vote for Obama
8. Cavanaugh ‘Seriously Considering’ PSC Race
9. Turnham Calls Riley Out
10. Tim James on 2010 Governor’s Run

Note: Once again the page “AL-02 Big List” would be listed first if it were considered a post. I don’t think I’ll continue to note this every month. It’s a popular page.

December 2007

1. Wallace in AL-02?
2. AL-02: Bobby Bright is Running as a…
3. BREAKING: Dem Senator Switches Parties
4. Bobby Bright’s Marathon Party Dance
5. Tim James on AL-02: ‘Not Made My Mind Up’
6. Segall in AL-03
7. Punch’s Impact Still Felt
8. Huckabee and Brinson: Match Made in Heaven?
9. Most Influential Alabamian?
10. Hubbard Likely New State GOP Chair

Note: the page “AL-02 Big List” would be listed first in December if it were considered a post. The page “Christmas Wish List” would be listed as the second most viewed for December if it were considered a post.

November 2007

1. Most Influential Alabamian?
2. Wednesday 11/7/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
3. Harri Anne Smith and the AL-02 Race
4. Observations on the AL-02 Race
5. Considering Mac Gipson’s Retirement
6. Tuesday 11/6/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
7. AL-02 Poll: New Numbers
8. Bright Confirms Serious Interest in AL-02 Race
9. Sen. Smith Gets Nod of Wiregrass Group
10. Love Assembles Team for AL-02 Race

Note: the page “AL-02 Big List” would be listed first in November if it were considered a post.

October 2007

1. Mike Hubbard in the Parlor, Part Two
2. State GOP Chair Mike Hubbard Visits the Parlor
3. Mike Hubbard in the Parlor, Part Three
4. Sunday 10/7/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
5. Text of Simpson with House Judiciary Committee
6. Birmingham Mayor’s Race Poll
7. Former U.S. Atty Jones “Likely Witness” on Siegelman Matter
8. Tim James Looks at AL-02
9. Artur Davis: Truths & Consequences
10. Langford Leading in Birmingham Mayor’s Race?

Note: the page “AL-02 Big List” would be listed first if it were considered a post. It had more views in October than the top four posts combined.

September 2007

1. AG, DA’s Up Rhetoric
2. On the Senate District 32 GOP Primary
3. Birmingham News Story Foretold
4. U.S. Rep. Terry Everett to Retire
5. On the Blue Dot Ball
6. Governor “Hit the Roof” (or Not)
7. The Missing D.A.
8. Langford Leading in Birmingham Mayor’s Race?
9. Mayor’s Race in Birmingham Shaping Up
10. Jay Love “Definitely Running” for AL-2

Note: the page “AL-02 Big List” would be listed first if it were considered a post.

August 2007

1. Take Back Alabama’s Highways
2. Rumors Fly on See’s Supreme Seat
3. SD 32: the Race Behind the Race
4. GOP Legislators “Sour” on Riley
5. State School Board Bans “Double-Dipping”
6. Mayor’s Race in Birmingham Shaping Up
7. Randy McKinney in the Political Parlor
8. Langford Leading in Birmingham Mayor’s Race?
9. Districts, Parties, and the SBOE Ban
10. Harri Anne Smith in the Political Parlor

July 2007

1. SD 32: the Race Behind the Race
2. Alabama Line Updated
3. Supreme Court Justice See to Retire
4. Ballot Access in Alabama Too Strict
5. Battle Royale On to Replace Byrne in Baldwin
6. Rumored Candidates for Major Posts
7. Mayor’s Race in Birmingham Shaping Up
8. Drug Courts Can Reduce Overcrowding
9. Karl Rove’s Link to Siegelman’s Prosecution
10. Barack the Vote in Alabama

June 2007

1. The Karl Rove / Bob Riley Conspiracy
2. Karl Rove’s Link to Siegelman’s Prosecution
3. Sen. Bishop “Coldcocks” Sen. Barron
4. Siegelman Sentence Sends Riley to DC
5. House Minority Leader’s Special Interest in Resolution
6. Bama U.S. Attorney Investigated for Perjury
7. Sunday 5/27/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
8. Senate Fight Almost Becomes Literal
9. Sessions’ Democratic Challenger(s)
10. Notes from the GOP Red State Summer Dinner

May 2007

1. Wednesday 11/29/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
2. Party-Hopping with a Party of Ten
3. On Siegelman, DoJ, and a Lesson from Dad
4. Blogger Headaches
5. Senate District 22
6. BREAKING: ALFA Declines to Endorse…
7. Old Posts Showing As New
8. What’s Behind the Curtain of Giles’ Christian Coalition?
9. Sunday 5/27/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
10. Sessions’ Democratic Challengers

April 2007

1. BCA’s Money on Wrong Horses
2. The kind of week political junkies live for!
3. I trust the people and other musings on post secondary
4. Ron Sparks: More “in the next few weeks”
5. Who Sent the Fax Why?
6. Wednesday 11/29/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
7. AL-2 Rumors and Facts
8. The Internet Legend of Ron Sparks Grows
9. Rudy ! Rudy ! Rudy ! and other Presidential observations
10. Blogger Headaches

March 2007

1. Payday Loans Attract Interest
2. Shocked !!!… I tell you… Shocked !!!
3. Former SoS Nancy Worley Indicted
4. Pondering the Pay Raise
5. Putting their mouths where their money is – A Small Profile in Political Courage
6. The State of the State
7. Blogger Headaches
8. Introducing the Alabama Line
9. Mr. Kettle, Please Meet Mr. Pot. Mr. Pot, Mr. Kettle.
10. I think any other post just couldn’t describe this day accurately enough…

February 2007

1. Introducing the Alabama Line
2. Blogger Headaches
3. In Defense of Mike Hubbard
4. News to Him
5. Hubbard Likely New State GOP Chair
6. Alabama Feeling Blue?
7. Dial Named Head of State’s Rural Development
8. Wednesday 11/29/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
9. Dial to Head Rural Development
10. PAC Mentality

January 2007

1. Blogger Headaches
2. “It’s Not Done Until It’s Done”
3. New Senate President Pro Tem is Hinton Mitchem
4. Matrix LLC
5. Troy King – The New Nancy Worley
6. Bully for them
7. Sunday 7/23/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
8. Cost of the Deal
9. On Electing the President Pro Tem
10. New Senate Committee Assignments

Jan. – Dec., 2006

1. Experience At What?
2. Top 10 Most Interesting Questions: #4
3. Thursday 10/19/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
4. Top 10 Most Interesting Questions: #3
5. Top 10 Most Interesting Questions: #6
6. Matrix LLC
7. Top Ten Summary
8. Top 10 Most Interesting Questions: #1
9. Top 10 Most Interesting Questions: #10
10. “Definitely” a Write-In Candidate for HD 54