I've been reading this blog since the 2004 cycle, and it honestly was a hell of a lot better when Jerome was a main frontpage poster. It's been kind of painful to see the slow degeneration into some sort of Hillary suicide cult, and it's clearly going to get a lot uglier.
You've got ads all over the place; asking for money and throwing out the figure $50 seems like it takes some nerve to me. I don't ever remember the funding problems when this was a decent site.