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Balloon Juice is LOSING!

by Michael D.|  November 6, 20076:41 pm| 30 Comments

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We’re losing to crap blogs, people. VOTE! This is a meaningless competition, but c’mon, we need to beat RedState. Do you want them to win. Do ya? DO YA? I know there are enough of you to affect the vote. Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies.

Oh whatever. Maybe RedState deserves it. Their fans are more loyal than Balloon-Juice’s apparently…

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!

Update: Only FIVE HUNDRED votes left to fix RedState good! Not like you can do that or anything…

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  1. 1.

    IanY77

    November 6, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Damn you and your irrefutable reverse psychology!!

  2. 2.

    MT

    November 6, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    RedState has links from sites like HumanEvents.com – that’s how I found out about this poll. In order to see the results of the poll, I had to vote and RedState was the name I knew (sometimes I click on their links). Maybe you just need to get more hyperlinks from more sites – remember, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    November 6, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    I called out the cavalry, if it helps any.

  4. 4.

    capelza

    November 6, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    Zinfab…I in yur diree, rekomenden it. (Okay, my LOL cat isn’t that great).

    http://www.boomspeed.com/jlrn/Anne/ded.jpg

    Someone posted this elsewhere, so I’m just sharing.

  5. 5.

    Heywood Jablomy

    November 6, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Oh all right – but really, what hooey. And I didn’t see ONE porn blog or porno site. I mean really. Talk about the elephant in the bedroom.

  6. 6.

    ImJohnGalt

    November 6, 2007 at 7:54 pm

    know there are enough of you to affect the vote. Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies

    Well, maybe you could offer to match every vote we pussies deliver with a $25.00 contribution to Valor-IT.

    That was joke, in case you were wondering.

  7. 7.

    JWW

    November 6, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    Michael,

    I’m not well liked here. I come to this site too read the comments, as the bloggers post’s are poor. You are now begging in a field of beggers for alms. I do hope you have some fat storage on you body, as you will be missing a meal or two. Remember the movie Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come”, well you haven’t bought or leased the property yet. Honest and respectful blogging build the base. If it’s common folk, “which the majority of US citizens are” your looking for be honest and respectful. If you print BS, you get BS in return.

  8. 8.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    November 6, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    The difference is now 386 votes…

  9. 9.

    srv

    November 6, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    Would Michael D have voted for BJ before he became a blogger here?

  10. 10.

    sujal

    November 6, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    I wonder how thorough they are being about stopping double votes… I’ve figured out how to vote as often as I want. It’s tedious, but doable. I could probably script it if I were bored and had no ethics…

    Hope they’re doing more than trusting the client…

    Sujal

  11. 11.

    Xanthippas

    November 6, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    You know, if someone had listened to me about, oh 4:36 yesterday, and decided to embed a poll on their blog, or put a link to the poll that can easily be found on the blog, you guys might be doing a little better.

    Just sayin’…

  12. 12.

    MNPundit

    November 6, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    We’re losing to crap blogs, people. VOTE!

    It’s because you’re a self-loathing gay.

    I would have voted for Wonkette if anyone on their staff actually had two X chromosomes. If your mascot is a chick and your name invokes chickishness then you need to have a chick on staff not barely employed guys.

    So I voted for Balloon Juice.

  13. 13.

    jcricket

    November 6, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies.

    I’ll have you know my pussy is in no way apathetic. It takes a stand on the important issues of the day.

  14. 14.

    Michael D.

    November 6, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    Would Michael D have voted for BJ before he became a blogger here?

    I was here long before any of you were! :-)

  15. 15.

    jcricket

    November 6, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    I am afraid if I vote for Balloon Juice I’ll be forced to have a Reagasm. Best term I’ve heard all day.

  16. 16.

    Michael D.

    November 6, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    I would think the 15,000 plus people that visit here on a daily basis could at LEAST spend a minute clicking a frickin link to vote.

    Note to you libs, it DOESNT’ COST YOU ANYTING! LOL!

    J/K

  17. 17.

    Darth Odie

    November 6, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    Ghahhh!

  18. 18.

    Royston Vasey

    November 6, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    OK, OK I voted for ya.
    But I also voted for CB Report in the next category.
    =)

  19. 19.

    Zifnab

    November 6, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    I’ll have you know my pussy is in no way apathetic. It takes a stand on the important issues of the day.

    Would you say its not the type to stay close lipped? Perhaps a bit full of itself? Knows its hot button issues?

    Ok, those were terrible. I’m done.

  20. 20.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    November 6, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    The Surge is working! Difference is 128 votes now!

  21. 21.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    November 6, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Hey capazela, I saw your post over at the Great Orange Satan regarding the RedState post and all liberals dying making that persons day. They said ‘I look forward to seeing each and every one in Hell.’, so I take it that person is going to hell too?

    ;)

    Maybe they think God set heaven up with HiDef channels that you get to tune to for your personal entertainment.

  22. 22.

    Stephen

    November 6, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    You could always accuse Rusty Shackleford of pulling the plug on cancer patient. It’s worked before.

    And if you do, Sadly No! will have your back.

  23. 23.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    November 6, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Corngrabulashuns! You are now in first place by 7 votes!

    :)

    Eat that RedState!

  24. 24.

    Slide

    November 6, 2007 at 10:48 pm

    had to vote for good ole’ John, now that he’s seen the light, registered as a Democrat, and is deeply afflicted with BDS.

  25. 25.

    heywood jablomy

    November 6, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    Porn. I’m telling you. Porn = hits.

    Just look at jww – just read through his cache and woof … the man has strange tastes in politics AND fornication.

  26. 26.

    srv

    November 6, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    I was here long before any of you were!

    Right.

  27. 27.

    Atilla the Hun

    November 7, 2007 at 3:15 am

    Michael D., I’ve been voting for Balloon-Juice, in SPITE of your addition. You’re not an addition, you’ve really watered down the site, to put it lightly.

    What were you THINKING, John?

  28. 28.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    November 7, 2007 at 3:45 am

    While I do not agree with either side (independent), this is John’s blog and if he welcomes Michael, I think it is his choice to make. We can disagree with it, but I don’t think it is bad to have differing opinions around. Discussion is great, and diverse points of view are good too, but an echo chamber is not good.

    I like a bit of meat in an argument, not just singing to the choir. If we want to disagree with the other side, it is kind of nice to have a reasonable representative of that side to disagree with.

    BTW, almost 600 votes ahead! Wow! :)

  29. 29.

    jenniebee

    November 7, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Im in ur wizbang givn u a landslide

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  1. Balloon Juice says:
    November 9, 2007 at 10:51 am

    […] As for why exactly we won, I have no more of an idea than anyone else. Maybe more of our our readers like the blog better than the rest of their reading list, or maybe it has to do with the fact that our traffic tends to linger at the site longer than most blogs. Or maybe you’re all dorks with nothing better to do. About the only thing that I can say for certain is that the moment I embedded that poll on our front page our vote count spiked and never slowed down. Even if it’s more proximate cause than ultimate cause, credit for the win mostly goes to Xanthippas for prodding us into doing it. […]

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