"Some people say" (heh) there is a conservative bias over at the Weblog Awards. The fact that Little Green Footballs is beating Kos in the Best Blog Category? Really. (click the link to fix that travesty.)
What's interesting to me is to look at the finalists themselves. (Full disclosure my own blog Blue Gal is a finalist in the TTLB "Flappy Bird" Category.)
As Alicia has pointed out, there are at least a few categories where progressive blogs are provided with only one of the ten finalist spots. Given the over-representation of progressives in the blogosphere, this seems deliberate.
Not to bite the hand that feeds, but there is some disingenuity with Wizbang in their claim that the awards are "transparent." Yes, there is open nominating, and once you vote you see immediate results, just as in a Kos poll. But how the finalists are chosen is a total mystery. I've visited a number of the finalists and I'm happy to say I think good spelling and a moderate knowledge of HTML seems to be part of the criteria. But whether the "decision of the judge(s)" is also based on political bias? They're not saying.
If you want to vote and want your vote to make a difference, there are two categories ONLY where the vote is close. (Voting closes tomorrow night.) Again with the full disclosure. Having sized up my own competition (and you can do the same here as Wizbang helpfully provides links to each finalist) my blog is the only one in its category which defines itself as a progressive political blog. I have never led with more than fifty votes, and have trailed by as little as one vote. It is extremely close.
The other category where the voting is close is Best New Blog, where Lesbian Dad is running neck and neck with ahem, Hang Right Politics.