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MySpace Sees Big Numbers On Election Night

MySpace has some fairly big numbers to brag about after the election.On election night MySpace had 300 million more page views than last Tuesday and over 2 million visits to its MySpace election coverage on MySpace Decision08.While both candidates had profiles on MySpace, Obama will be the first president on MySpace.

Google Helps Kids Get Messages to Next President

Google (specifically Google Docs) has teamed up with the National Writing Project to sponsor a program that lets students around the U.S. write letters to the presidential candidates in a program appropriately titled: Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future.

About.com Launches Election Section

About.com has launched a political editorial section on its site focused on providing visitors information about the upcoming 2008 election.The section called Election 08: Behind the Headlines features information on each of the presidential candidates, what people can do to participate in the upcoming election and opinions on the concerns voters have raised about Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, along with other election topics.

Voters Going Online For Candidate Information

While television remains the primary source for voters to get information on the presidential candidates positions, the Internet is the second most used source with 17.8 percent of voters saying they get their information about election issues online according to a survey from Burst Media.One-fifth (21.5%) of men say the Internet is their main source on the positions that the presidential candidates have on major election issues. Among men 25-34 years old, 28.6 percent cite the Internet as their primary source of election information.

Political Parties Embrace New Media

New media usage is a commonplace activity for U.S. adults in all major political parties, according to BIGresearchs's "Simultaneous Media Usage Study."

What Google Says About The Candidates

Now that the US Presidential candidates have been campaigning for a solid year, we're running out of angles from which to look at them. Since the Googleplex has hosted each of the remaining candidates, we thought we'd use the Google search engine to find those new angles. This can show us a few things: what the Internet "climate," so to speak, is for the candidates; how they stand on issues affecting the Internet; and which ones are making the best use of the Internet for their campaigns. And I'll try to keep my opinions out of it. (Cub)Scout's honor.

Voters Expect The Next President To Be Internet Savvy

Forty-four percent of voters expect the next President to be Internet savvy, according to a new poll done by Zogby International on behalf of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee(CICAC).

Truveo Launches Election Video Site

Video search engine Truveo has launched a presidential video election page focused on the 2008 race.The site features election related videos from television networks, user generated video sites and the campaigns themselves. The site includes pages of the candidates in the Democratic and Republican primary races. Candidates featured include Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama on the Democratic side and Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Mitt Romney on the Republican side.

Washingtonpost.com Launches FactChecker

The washingtonpost.com has introduced the "FactChecker," an interactive feature that will be part pf the Post's coverage of the 2008 presidential election on both the washingpost.com and in the newspaper.

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.'