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'''Daily Kos''' ({{IPA2|koʊs}} in an American accent<!--the rest of us, possessing the phoneme /ɒ/, pronounce it /kɒs/-->) is an [[United States|American]] [[politics of the United States|political]] [[weblog]] aimed at [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and [[Liberalism in the United States|liberals]]/[[Progressivism in the United States|progressives]]. Run by [[Markos Moulitsas Zúniga]], (''Kos'' from the last ''syllable'' of his ''first name'', often mispronounced) a young [[United States Army]] veteran, it has an average weekday traffic of 530,000 visits[http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm8dailykos], and often reaches over 5 million unique visits in one week.

==General==

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===Street Prophets===

On [[September 18]], [[2005]] Street Prophets, a "Daily Kos Community" focusing on the intersection of faith and politics, was launched by Moulitsas and Rev. Daniel Schultz (known by his username "pastordan"), a [[United Church of Christ]] minister from [[Pennsylvania]].

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===Armando===

Armando wasis an anonymous front-page diaristblogger at DailyKos,. takingArmando took a fairly prominent role in the running of DailyKos during Moulitsas' book hiatus in 2005. HeCurrently, wasArmando amongis well known for being one of the most prolific contributors to the site and occasionally has his diaries featured on the front page. He also has his own political blogging website, [http://www.swordscrossed.org/ Swords Crossed], and is a guest political commentator in a wide variety of media outlets, including The Majority Report and Talking Points Memo Cafe. After his offline identiy was revealed by a [[National Review]] blog (something Armando "was fighting vigorously . . . to keep . . . from being published"), he announced his departure from Daily Kos in July 2006, citing loss of anomynity. [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/7/221843/2153][http://www.swordscrossed.org/?p=182]

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