Harry Shearer moderates the hysterical silent debate; MySpace and MTV kick off their presidential forum series with John Edwards next week; Marc Cooper heads the Off the Bus team; Bloomberg for Prez supporters organize ... Read More

Ron Paul and Mike Gravel are the dark horses of their respective parties. They raise a ruckus during debates and forums, they hold radical positions at odds with their parties' leadership, and they poll very low (Paul ... Read More

I have been hearing a lot lately about we are facing a mortgage crisis of huge proportions. Lenders have overextended themselves with high risk, variable interest rate loans and now people are defaulting on loans in ... Read More

A defining problem of our cultural moment: Sometimes, as I stare at my Facebook profile, I have no idea what to write in my “Status Update.” It got me thinking, Do the candidates suffer from the same ... Read More

On Monday I went to Charleston, S.C. for the Dems' YouTube/CNN debate. I was planning on live-blogging the debate, and man did I have a great seat, but given the intense level of security at the Citadel (no electronics ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates A new web site, health08.org, is billing itself as a "hub for information about health care and the presidential campaign" and it truly is. Started by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the site ... Read More

I'm not sure how far we should take this analogy, but Ron Paul is to the Republicans of 2008 as Howard Dean was to the Democrats of 2004: the one candidate speaking out prominently against the war when his colleagues ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama "have distinguished themselves in the presidential field by running campaigns that deliberately part with a longtime rule of election-year politics: Keep the ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates Last night YouTube launched a new feature called "Spotlight." Each week, a different candidate will be in the "spotlight" on YouTube, putting up a video and asking for video responses from the ... Read More

After reading a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "In '08 Race, Web Tactics Are Even More Integral, on March 19, Robbin Steif CEO of lunametrics wrote on the company's blog about the web analytics packages that the ... Read More