Glancing through my referrer logs, it appears the search engines really love my posts on Prop 4 and Prop 5. I seem to be, in fact, the #1 hit on MSN search for 'michigan proposal 5'. Google puts me at 9th for 'michigan proposal 5', which is high enough for that single search phrase to net me more referrals in 2 weeks than any other site has provided in the past 2 months, except for YpsiDixit, MarkMaynard.com, ArborUpdate, and the time that MacSurfer.com picked up one of my posts.

My daily average hits to date for November are at 4x the level for the previous year, with Nov. 6 and 7 spiking up to 7x and 9x the previous year's daily average, respectively.

So maybe I had some amount of influence? (Except that Prop 4 went strongly against my position...) I won't give myself *much* credit, though, as people apparently weren't generally impressed enough with my position to refer to it - the best links I got was four hits from an lj thread I was cited in, and six hits from the Dollars and Sense blog, which was a link by somebody who knows me. Time to work on the pursuasive writing skills a little more, perhaps.