If online "friends" were a proxy for voters, Barack Obama could accept the Presidency, and not just the Democratic nomination, on Aug. 28. With more than 1.8 million supporters on Facebook and MySpace (NWS), Obama's base on the leading U.S. social networks is nearly seven times that of John McCain.

By McKenna, Ted NEW YORK: A bipartisan mix of political bloggers and Web sites is helping promote a new site that lets anyone post and vote on video questions posed to 2008 presidential candidates.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- TechPresident.c

NEW YORK _ The Web operatives for five 2008 presidential candidates sat in a row, clutching water bottles and chatting about their campaign chains of command when the projector screen behind them lit up.