With one month to go, there is no more need to do Huckwatching, as others are doing it. His web traffic equals that of Thompson, Giuliani, McCain and Romney combined, though still less than Paul. If he does win the nomination it will be important to examine how and whether his more decentralized campaign had anything to do with it.

Moreover, with one month to go, I'm not interested in strategy; I'm interested in the places online that voters can turn to find the substance they need to make decisions. I hope candidate sites increasingly provide comparative record information, but I'm not holding my breath. I tend to think platforms are less helpful than records; the best way to predict what someone will do is what they have done in the past. Last night I had a debate with a Clinton supporter who could not name a single thing she had done in the Senate, but I do not wholly blame her for that; Clinton's actual Senate record is hard to find anywhere in the mainstream media.

The question for techpresident watchers is whether the promise of the internet for in depth reporting is creating better sources for citizens. Yes and no; several major blogs are largely substance-free, focusing on predictions, platforms, and polls, but others, though less easy to find, have exactly what we need.

I've recently found some fantastic voting record reporting from a sophomore at GWU. He creates both charts about proposed plaforms, and in separate articles, reporting on actual voting records (which I find more useful). For example, read this wildly useful piece comparing the voting records of Obama and Clinton:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/15/15918/791

Or, if you actually believe platforms, read this great report on "Where they stand: transportation," (completely undermining the claim of one prominent political reporter that the reason they didn't write about candidate differences is that there aren't that many differences).

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/5/221548/109

With a great editor, these pieces would be widely read by voters eager to understand the differences and implications of a vote.

On the other hand, try to piece together Mitt Romney's record as a Governor in the New York Times.
ou can't.