The Telegraph.co.uk recently released a list of the top 100 conservatives and liberals. Here are the Republican presidential candidates along with some other name of note that made the list.

The Candidates:

• #1 Rudy Giuliani
• #9 John McCain
• #10 Mitt Romney
• #11 Mike Huckabee
• #58 Fred Thompson
• #97 Ron Paul

Names of Note:

• #3 Matt Drudge (props to internet journalism)
• # 21 George Bush
• #26 James Dobson
• #47 Joe Liberman (also made #47 on the liberal list)
• #71 Chuck Norris
• #85 Clarence Thomas (why so low?)

Liberal Listings of note:

• #8 Arnold Schwarzenegger
• #23 Colin Powell
• #62 Jerome Armstrong (co host of the poplar DomeNation with our own David All)

Some thoughts:

• The liberal side had more actors and musicians than the conservative side
• Barack Obama, his wife and his media strategist all made the cut
• A lot of Bloggers made the cut on both sides of the proverbial aisle
• Quite a few news anchors are on each list

From all this I gather that in order to be influential one needs to... run for public office, be a news anchor, be an actor or become a blogging phenom :-)

Any thoughts on the top 100 lists?

UPDATE (David All):: Erick Erickson of Redstate deservedly pulled #69:

69. ERICK ERIKSON
Blogger

ERICK ERIKSON

Founder and CEO of the conservative website redstate.com who also blogs on his personal site erickerickson.org, entitled Confessions of a Political Junkie, and on Georgia politics at peachpundit.com. A Republican political consultant and self-described “recovering lawyer”.

At just 32, Erickson epitomises the new power of the internet. A small-government fiscal and social conservative based in the south, he taps into and influences the Republican “base” that the GOP’s 2008 candidates are courting. Only started blogging in 2003.

Congrats Erick.