Because it's Friday, we bring you Bras for Hillary; Compete data shows a blowout for Barack Obama, but RealClearPolitics averages show a different story; are suffering from election fatigue?; GroundReport posts a transcript of last month's panel on the web and politics at NYU; Ron Paul supporters produce a pro-McCain site that could use a little subtlety; and Mike Huckabee will soon be launching a site about... taxes? We don't know.
| Read more ...We're at the Politics Online conference, being busy and belated getting the digest done. But it's done! Google continues to map the primary results; are the Clinton and Obama "red telephone" ads really the "first breakout hits of the YouTube campaign"?; more on Obama as Apple; those conference mp3's are on their way to your inbox; Obama is dominating our Hitwise charts; Brave New Films' anti-McCain videos are getting big; Hillaryis44 creator uncovered, five people rejoice; Obama's campaign boasts of 1.5 million calls to today's primary states.
| Read more ...Matt Bai identifies the core lesson of the Dean campaign, and says that almost no 2008 campaigns have actually learned it; ActBlue seeks to move beyond individual fundraising; William Beutler stays on the Republican ActBlue beat; the ONE campaign produces videos of the candidates' statements on poverty, but most Republicans aren't involved; OuijaVote 2008 is the first project to restore our "paranormal democracy"; new Compete data breaks down candidate site popularity by state; and our Hitwise charts show Mike Huckabee pulling even with Ron Paul in his share of web traffic.
| Read more ...David Brooks thinks the netroots' influence is on the wane; an anti-Hillary Facebook group has more supporters than its pro-Obama counterpart; more details about John Edwards' visit to Columbus, KY; James Kotecki writes about his experiences as one of the first videobloggers to cover the campaign; Ron Paul is raising a fair amount of money in an end-of-quarter fundraising sprint; and Fred Thompson no longer leads in the number of visits to candidate sites.
| Read more ...The National Journal launches a political stock exchange, giving people the chance to predict the outcome of the election; yesterday was the original date of the Republican CNN/YouTube debate, and Katherine Seelye wonders if the idea has lost its steam; according to Hitwise, Fred Thompson's website is getting more traffic than anyone elses'; Hillary Clinton produces an "interactive webcast" to explain her health plan tonight; a new episode of "Running with Rudy" follows Rudy to a NASCAR track in New Hampshire; and Mitt Romney's campaign calls is create-your-own-ad contest a success.
| Read more ...Wikipedia and the candidates; Jane Hamsher sends an open letter to Elizabeth Edwards; Fred Thompson's website a hit with older men; tracking candidates' buzz? Here's five sites that can help; John McCain suggest that MoveOn.org move out of the country; the "telephone town hall" idea takes hold.
1 comment | Read more ...A connection between the Romney campaign and an anti-Fred Thompson website; the College Republicans are encouraging their minions to use YouTube; Mike Bloomberg's social networking profiles have been slow to take off; Rudy Giuliani is looking for ex-employees to shoot promo videos; Fred Thompson is out with a new and slow campaign video; and Hitwise stats show a huge market share for Thompson's website.
| Read more ...The open-sourcing of debate planning; the debate on the online Right; the demographics of the online Left; the ongoing decline of newspapers; another exploitative video; and whose website is winning the most attention...
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