Here are the most-viewed blog posts on MPW in February 2010.

1. Snap Your Whip at Bethesda’s Pimping Castle!
2. Top Snow Totals in Maryland
3. MPW Poll: Most Amazing MoCo Fundraising Achievement of 2009
4. British Lucky Paul’s Pal
5. Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part One
6. Pimping Castle Raided by Police
7. Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Three
8. Pimping Castle Makes Fox 5
9. The Campus is the Wrong Place for a Hospital
10. Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Two

Snap Your Whip, the blog post that broke the insane British Lucky Paul story, easily spanked the other posts raw last month. The fact that posts related to the Bethesda Pimping Castle accounted for four of our top ten suggests that perverted sex may have a bigger fan base than state and local politics. Who knew?

Cheryl Kagan, a candidate who last ran for office in 1998, beat out Sam Arora and Saqib Ali in an MPW poll that was heavily swamped by Facebook friends. As of this writing, here are the results:

Question: What is the Most Amazing MoCo Fundraising Achievement of 2009?

Kagan Outraises Forehand Two Years in a Row: 166 votes (34%)
Ali Outraises King: 120 votes (24%)
Arora Breaks Six Digits: 111 votes (22%)
No Indictments: 51 votes (10%)
Duchy Outraises Everybody: 48 votes (10%)

We know our readers love Kagan, Ali and Arora, but we think they underestimated County Council Member Duchy Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg’s eye-popping haul of nearly $300,000 last year has had Rockville insiders buzzing for weeks.