There's bad news and then there's baaad news.

Now I always assumed most people didn't read anything I wrote. I never had any empirical justification of my claims, rather, just anecdotal evidence as observed in my peers. Well, now I have some numbers.

A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.

Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive.

Oh damn.

While blogs are largely considered the realm of young people who are most Internet-savvy, only 19 percent of people ages 18 to 31, and 17 percent of those ages 32 to 43, regularly read a political blog, the poll said.

The generation most likely to read such blogs are those age 63 or older, 26 percent of whom said they do so. Also, 23 percent of those ages 44 to 62 read them, the poll said.

Can I get a comment from someone in the 63+ demographic? Lord knows nobody my age is reading this thing.