Jonah makes the excellent point that
conservatives (and libertarians) dominated the «net in its earliest days, and I'll back him up on that — when I was helping to assemble the list of
websites for a targeted political search engine back in 1999, progressive / lib sites were grossly
outnumbered, and there was no real lefty counterpart to the Free Republic (a then - vibrant online community) or to Drudge.