FactCheck.org yesterday recorded its best day so far in terms of unique visits -- 82,000 -- a figure undoubtedly driven by the Florida primary, the State of the Union address and a tightening of the Democratic and Republican primary contests.  Traffic to the site for January will easily exceed 1.5 million, a big jump from December's 874,000, according to FactCheck director Brooks Jackson.

 

And this doesn't even count readership on Newsweek.com, which re-posts FactCheck articles on its own site.

 

See here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/106098 and here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/105959

 

Nor does it measure response to a lengthy profile of FactCheck aired yesterday by Los Angeles station KCAL-TV. Watch here:  http://cbs2.com/politics/factcheck.politics.ads.2.640188.html

 

FactCheck's subscriber base also is growing.  An email alert of a new article, sent Jan. 3, went out to 65,674 readers; last night's email alert was sent to 67,136 readers.