Micah Sifry checks back in on the wave of protest that has greeted Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion bailout plan; You don't have to follow polls that closely to know of the fears that cell phones threaten to kick the leg out of modern surveying. A new Pew Research Center study finds that while among all voters, modeling off of land lines to capture the leanings of the mobile-only crowd is a satisfactory approximate. But, there's a "but;" Does MyBarackObama.com break down at the point where volunteers might otherwise turn into self-organizing surrogates? MyDD's Shai Sachs has thinks it just might; and much, much more.

More than a million people sign a petition for Tibet on Avaaz.org; an online petition calls for Hillary to leave the race; check out a panel on new media and politics this Friday at NYU; Meghan McCain gets profiled in Washington Post; Mike Gravel is... a libertarian?