This is a shock to Matt Drudge, apparently, who trumpeted this report on his site today.
22% of Americans, according to the poll, regularly read political blogs.
And this is a huge shock to a bunch of people? It isn't to me.
Again (I've made this point before): most Americans are not all that interested in politics, and don't follow it that much. The great conservative and senior editor of National Review, James Burnham, used to emphasize this over and over again. Americans are not, and I don't think they ever will be, a hugely politicized people.
I suspect this is a good thing. An American people with a healthy disdain for politics perhaps will be more likely to see to it that their government is restrained and kept limited.
