The Web on the Candidates

• Less than a week before the primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and, yes, Vermont, and Hillary Clinton finally gets her own Facebook app! Built by developer Angela Trigg, the Go Hillary application bills itself as “Ground zero for all things Hillary!,” and it’s a place for Hillary supporters to post comments, testimonials and links to articles. It also reposts pieces from Hillary’s rapid response site, HillaryHub., which could be valuable to some supporters. It's not a bad app, though it's something Hillary could have used, oh, eight months ago.

• Another MySpace Impact poll of those highly-coveted “Millenials” shows Barack Obama with an overwhelming lead over Clinton in Ohio (61% to 39%) and a slight Clinton lead (51% to 46%) over Obama in Texas. John McCain and Mike Huckabee are virtually tied in Texas and McCain leads Huck 53% to 23% in Ohio. While this is a poll of young voters who use MySpace -- and thus not even close to being universal -- the numbers make it clear that the young vote is real and influential, and is continuing to tilt heavily toward Obama.

• Wonkette’s Sara K. Smith checked in on the mysterious URL edwards08.com, which in January redirected to hillaryclinton.com. Now it’s shooting viewers over to barackobama.com. What's going on? Smith rightly asks, “Who is this fickle edwards08.com, and when will it endorse the one true progressive in the race, Mr. Mike Gravel?” Ha. On a lark, I checked out clinton08.com and got a very bizarre holding page with the phrase “Vote Your Conscious.” Um, do they mean “conscience,” or is Carl Jung the secret force behind Hillary's campaign?

• Ever wonder what those mysterious superdelegates, who may hold the keys to the Democratic nomination, are doing all day? If this ultra-undercover video has it right, the answer is nothing.

The Candidates on the Web

• Last night’s Democratic debate may have been the last Democratic debate of the season, and after 20 of these things, we can’t say we’re sad to see them go. The debate was pretty uneventful, except for Hillary’s stilted SNL reference (good to see that show becoming relevant again!) and Tim Russert’s bizarre Farrakhan-ian fascination. The best online activity may have been on Twitter, where you can often find better real-time commentary than anywhere else (you can follow along using Politweets). Meanwhile, MSNBC’s sense of the web was limited to a wonky livestream of the debate and an American Idol-style call for viewers to text in their choices for the winners. Hotline’s Jennifer Skala wasn’t impressed. Who needs the web when you’ve got Russert?

• With the clock ticking down, Hillary Clinton’s campaign knows a valuable piece of voter-generated content when it sees it. The Hillary Speaks for Me site — where supporters can upload video testimonials — is probably the most authentic piece of bottom-up support on behalf of Clinton that we’ve seen during the campaign, and her campaign has been smart to link to it on their front page. But like the Facebook app we mentioned above, this might be too little, too late.

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Kentucky bloggers are taking back their state’s Democratic Party, one wiki entry at a time, writes Michael Whitney. This week Ben Carter and Joe Sonka, proprietors of the progressive Kentucky blog BlueGrassRoots, announced the creation of BlueGrassWiki. The project aims to organize information about Kentucky’s 120 county parties in order to “infiltrate” local leadership in upcoming party precinct elections.