2012 was actually my best year since I started. In September, October and November I averaged just under $5 Page RPM with many days well over $6 (if Adsense people want to put me out of my misery and terminate my account because I discussed RPM they'd honestly be doing me a favor at this point). The elections helped a lot. Those were indeed the good old days for me. It's sad looking back on how good December used to be. I had one day in December 2011 that I hit over $9 RPM on this channel. That's insane! I made like $450 that day from this channel alone(this was my only channel generating meaningful revenue at the time). Yep. The good old days.