The Kids These Days ARE Politically Active...

... just not in the same way you used to be. The Washington Post had a great peice recently highlighting the activity on Facebook for presidential candidates. Consider a medium where you can, in one month, gain access to over 278,000 rabid fans... That's the power of Facebook and sites of its ilk (MySpace, Meetup, LinkedIn, etc.). And if you can do that for presidential candidates (even someone as charasmatic as Barak Obama), imagine what you can do for something people really care about. Like video games. Or cars. Wow!

The Techpresident site has taken this idea one step further by keeping a running total of how various candidates are doing in terms of the number of friends they have online. Not to be political here, but the Dems seem to have WAY MORE FRIENDS than the Republicans. Maybe they're just friendlier people :)