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Democrats: Building a Better Future; News about Democrats and current events in the United States. The Democratic Party is building a better future for everyone and you can help. Join us today and help elect more Democrats nationwide! This sub offers news about current events in the United States. We are here to get Democrats elected up and down the ballot. Founded 2008 · 556.9K members · links only

557.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 54.4K upvotes, which works out to 98 per 1,000 members.

98peak upvotes per 1,000 members
557.9Kmembers
54.4Kbest post
2.5Kmost comments
529posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 35%
Link 59% Image 35% Video 4% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:snoo: Article 130 📺 Video 80 📷 Pic 70 :snoo_dealwithit: Join r/democrats 39 🗳️ Beat Trump 14 :snoo_joy: Meme 11 :snoo_smile: Humor 9 🎁 Gift Link 🎁 4 :snoo_feelsgoodman: Healthcare 4 do not brigade other subs 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

This is President Barack Obama. He did not sell Americans out to the telecom lobby, but instead called upon on the FCC to take up the strongest possi…

↑ 54.4K 💬 429 image 2017

My respect for Al Green just went up ⬆️

↑ 43.4K 💬 759 image 2025

This is the correct response to Trump’s reaction to recent tragedy

↑ 41K 💬 1.3K image 2025

My one and only response to this event. Don’t you dare both sides us now.

↑ 38K 💬 1K image 2024

Does anyone else think a daily briefing would be helpful?

↑ 37.9K 💬 1.4K image 2025

Gavin Newsom Team Imitates Trump in New Social Media Callout

↑ 37.7K 💬 916 image 2025

Why is this even a question?

↑ 34.6K 💬 753 image 2021

Trump gets fact checked in real time by the camera man.

↑ 34.1K 💬 1.1K video 2024

Just a reminder that we owe this man so much for putting country first. He is the reason we have a chance to change things today.

↑ 33.7K 💬 1.9K image 2024

Conservatives want a Reddit safe space

↑ 32.7K 💬 2.2K image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/democrats, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/democrats?
r/democrats ("Democrats: Building a Better Future; News about Democrats and current events in the United States") describes itself this way: The Democratic Party is building a better future for everyone and you can help. Join us today and help elect more Democrats nationwide! This sub offers news about current events in the United States. We are here to get Democrats elected up and down the ballot. It was founded in 2008 and has 556.9K members.
How many members does r/democrats have?
r/democrats has about 557.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 529 of its posts; the biggest reached 54.4K upvotes, which is 98 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/democrats?
"This is President Barack Obama. He did not sell Americans out to the telecom lobby, but instead called upon on the FCC to take up the strong" reached 54.4K upvotes and 429 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/democrats.
What subreddits are similar to r/democrats?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/democrats?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are link posts and 35% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/democrats?
Across 529 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (30.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (23.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (17K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/democrats?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/democrats has 25.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 48 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/democrats, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.