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It is according to the research of “Weaver” at Conservative Heritage Times.

Alexa US traffic rankings of political party websites (lower is better):

1. A3P: 16,418
2. GOP: 22,023
3. Dem: 35,473
4. Green: 158,794
5. Constitution: 159,534
6. Libertarian: (Alexa mistakes it for being South Korean)
7. Reform: Unranked
8. America First: Unranked

The American Third Position Party (A3P) only began this year, not yet even listed at Politics1; and already the A3P boasts the most popular US party website.

Editor’s Note: My reading of Alexa has the LP website at 65,480 which would put it fourth after the Democrats but before the Greens. Weaver might have been looking at a different LP website.

Editor’s Note II: Weaver was apparently looking at US ranking, not global ranking, which makes sense. The LP’s US rank is 36,615 which would put it fourth behind the Democrats and in front of the Greens. The high ranking of the LP website in South Korea is odd. Anyone have an explanation for that?

Disclaimer: I also blog at CHT.

Independent Political Report

Governor in waiting John Hickenlooper announced Thursday that Alan Salazar will be his chief policy and political director and that R.D. Sewald will be deputy director of legislative services.

Salazar is now a top aide to U.S. Sen. Mark Udall. He will start work at the governor’s office in January. Salazar will oversee and coordinate policy, legislative, communications and scheduling operations in the governor’s office. He will also provide strategic and political direction for the new administration, according to a press release.

Salazar, a fifth-generation Colorado native, has 25 years of political and government experience on the staffs of former U.S. Sens. Gary Hart and Tim Wirth. Salazar was Udall’s chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives before moving into his current position. He previously worked as deputy chief of staff for former Gov. Roy Romer.

Salazar’s political experience includes working as the campaign manager for Romer in 1994, as political and state director for Clinton-Gore in 1992 and 1996 and as campaign chair for Hickenlooper’s recent gubernatorial campaign.

Sewald is now director of legislative services and city council liaison for Mayor Hickenlooper at the City of Denver. He will leave the city on Dec. 1.

Sewald has more than 15 years of experience in state and local government with an emphasis on public policy and political management. As legislative services director, he monitored and evaluated legislative actions for the administration and was responsible for the administration’s legislative team that includes neighborhoods, boards and commissions and state and local legislative affairs.

Colorado Independent