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CBSNews.com, Digg, Sharing Election Interests

Heavily Dugg political stories on Digg will be part of CBSNews.com as complementary content for the network's online election coverage.

Compete: Meetup.com Helps Ron Paul Campaign

The rabid fan base of supporters for Paul's Presidential nomination run have made use of the Internet, particularly Meetup, to aid the candidate.

Yahoo Unveils Political Dashboard

Yahoo News teamed up with Yahoo Buzz to come up with a Political Dashboard for anybody interested in following the traveling circus, er, race to the White House.In addition to the latest polls, the dashboard also tracks current search buzz for each candidate as Yahoo users look for more information. It also keeps track of how much money each candidate has raised.

Presidential Candidate Thompson Draws Traffic

Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson had more visitors to his Web site than any of the other candidates according to Hitwise for the week ending September 8, 2007.

CBS, Fox Still Stingy About Debate Footage

Activists on both sides of the political fence are thrilled that NBC, ABC, C-SPAN, and CNN have all agreed to allow Presidential debate footage to be legally shared, blogged, excerpted, and uploaded to video sites like YouTube.

Presidential Candidates Missing Online Audience

All of the major presidential candidates have an online presence, but their current online strategies are not reaching 42 percent of voters who use the Internet for information about politics, according to a study from iCrossing "How America Searches: Election 2008."

Yahoo Runs For The White House

The creation of the Presidential Election 2008 "über site" at Yahoo represents the portal's desire to be the 'town hall for voters across America.'

YouTube's Role in Election 2008

YouTube is diving into political waters with their voter education initiative YouTube You Choose 08. The new initiative is designed to allow political candidates to communicate with voters about their campaigns using video. 2008 presidential hopefuls who currently have their own channel on YouTube are Republicans Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. The Democrats are Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson.