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Users of Digg can keep an eye on how candidates (or presumably their campaigns) interact with stories appearing on the social media site. It's not impossible to be friends with Ron Paul and Barack Obama. For people on Digg, a new feature arrived to enable such disparate friendships to co-exist happily through primary season.

On the Digg the Candidates election site, many of the candidates have agreed to participate on the site. Hillary Clinton is currently a notable exception, especially considering her visits to Silicon Valley, including a trip to Google.

Digg's Daniel Burka discussed the new page at Digg the Blog:

We’ve created this page so you can track what the candidates are up to as the primary season approaches. Whether you support them or are merely curious, when you add one or more candidates as a friend you can track their Digg activity. Candidates with the most friends will bubble up to the top of the candidate page and you’ll be able to see a feed of all the candidate’s Digging activity in one place.

We’ve reached out to the current presidential candidates to ask them to participate. Many of them will be Digging, commenting and even submitting content. If you don’t see your favorite candidate on the page, feel free to contact their campaign staff. The page will be updated as we receive news from the campaigns.

Obama and Paul rate as the top Democrat and Republican candidates on Digg the Candidates, based on the number of friends they have gathered. Their campaigns have populated the About sections on each candidate's Digg profile with links to other social networking and media sites, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace.

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