Democrats are From TPM, Republicans are From Drudge [REPORT]

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Alex Fitzpatrick
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That's the conclusion of a report from comScore, which found a significant ideological split across the audiences of different news sites.

According to ComScore, Democrats are more likely than their Republican brethren to read Talking Points Memo and The Daily Kos -- sites which have an unabashed progressive stance on the issues of the day. Meanwhile, GOP readers make up more of an audience for Drudge Report and Breitbart.com -- both considered more conservative outlets.

The news site with the most bipartisan audience? That honor belongs to Politico, which was launched in 2007 by two former journalists from The Washington Post.

And yet, for all its partisanship, Kos has the largest percentage of independent readers.

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Similar results held true for reader engagement, although the Daily Caller saw more registered Republicans spending time on-site than did Breitbart.com.

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The results were based on the party of registered voters spending time on each site. The Huffington Post’s Politics section was the most often-visited of sites, with 9.2 million visitors throughout February.

Do you think people should get their news from more varied sources? Do most of these sites just tell them what they want to hear? Sound off in the comments below.

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