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Why is the McCain Campaign reaching out to Daily Kos?

Judging the efficacy of a Google bomb campaign against John McCain; three liberal blogs ask readers if they should endorse a candidate before the nominee emerges; another piece about why Twitter matters; illustrating the strength of viral video; congrats to Josh Marshall on his Polk Award and NYT profile; Hillary Clinton launches Delegate Hub, controls the tubes; John McCain continuing to generate little online enthusiasm.

As Congress considers again a new FISA update, bloggers urge Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to head back to Washington for the vote; a CREDO campaign to get voters to email Obama and Clinton about the vote allegedly causes Obama's email server to crash; new charts from Matthew Hurst show online buzz for the Republicans and Democrats; more Fred Thompson post-mortems, and a question about why he failed to use the web as promised; EveryBlock is a great new site that helps you find info about your city block; Clinton Internet Director Peter Daou tries out some spin on DailyKos, gets walloped; and two sites compare the candidates' stances on tech and science issues.

Mitt Romney wins Michigan, and the war metaphors get upped a notch; it's not quite clear if Markos had any effect on the primary, and a CNN poll suggests most Dem votes went to McCain; Richard Viguerie launches a pro-Ron Paul site, harvests email addresses; Sarah Lai Stirland on the teenage forces behind Hucksarmy.com; Slashdot is conducting a reader-generated interview with the candidates; and beware: General Zod is runing for president, and will make you kneeeeel at his feet.

The FEC recommends that John Edwards not receive matching funds for the $4.3 million he raised on ActBlue, and DailyKos protests; a single Republican activist has a list of 71 million Christian voters, prompting the left to grasp for their own; Craig Newmark co-hosts an Obama fundraiser; Glamour magazine launches a group blog about the race; Barack Obama ba-reaks the 200,000 MySpace barrier; Chris Dodd speaks at Google, asks them to write his tech policy; and Matt Lewis says negative blogging is just hitting its stride.

Markos Moulitsas covers the campaign for Newsweek -- who will be his counterpoint?; asking political reporters to move beyond the horserace; Meetup plans a super-top-secret project; TinyURL supporters Ron Paul, web addresses stay long; Republicans are behind a new anti-Hillary Facebook group; is Hillary dissing the youth?; and your friends at techPresident are featured on Rocketboom.

The New Hampshire blog Blue Hampshire gets a profile in the Wall Street Journal; Why Tuesday gets responses about election reform from 11 out of 16 candidates; two conservative bloggers filed an FEC complaint against Hillary Clinton; are Ron Paul supporters using botnets to send out thousands of spam emails?; Joe Trippi and Cyrus Krohn, mano-a-mano; Ed Markey taps the opinions of DailyKos readers; and Stephen Colbert's Facebook group is generated an uptick in registered voters.

Slate writers on the glories of Google Suggest; James Kotecki officially joins the Politico; are DailyKos' traffic numbers artificially inflated by Sitemeter?; the lack of social conservatives online; techPresident is profiled by the Washington Post; Leon Wolf leaves the Brownback campaign; Marc Ambinder thinks Chris Dodd's web team is the most innovative out there; Barack Obama and the 21st-century fireside chat; a report from Elizabeth Edwards' meetup with mommy bloggers; and Obama's blog outreach guy leaves the campaign.