Jose Antonio Vargas reviews Matt Bai's The Argument; according to CBS Evening News, the majority of Americans still get their political news from the newspaper; the Huffington Post/Slate/Yahoo "Mashup" debate was viewed by 1.1 million people, but how many actually participated?; a new website attempts to bring together all of the candidates' stands on issues but is missing important features; and more on William Beutler's critique of Googlebombing.

Chris Bowers on the progress of his Googlebombing campaign against Rudy Giuliani; Mashable has details on the tech used in the upcoming MySpace/MTV presidential "dialogues," and Matt Lewis anticipates some left-right balance due to the participation of both MySpace ("right") and MTV ("left"); MTV's politically-oriented social networking site is set to launch later today; and Barack Obama launches a donation-matching drive with a twist.

The Web on the Candidates

Under pressure from the Moveon and netroots bloggers, including dailykos' Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and myDD's Matt Stoller, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled a planned Democratic debate from Fox News, Ryan Grim from the Politico reports. Grim writes that although Democratic leaders have publicly blamed comments from Fox President in which he jokingly confused Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden, Reid made the decision after a conference call with netroots bloggers, including Zúniga and Stoller.

Google bombing is so last year, says PromotionWorld. Google has updated its search engine to make it less open to Google bombing campaigns, such as the one that brought up the White House home page when searching for "miserable failure." Instead of Google bombing, the war for web optimization will be fought using search engine rankings, Google PageRank inbound links, MySpace, and Alexa rankings.