YouTube is offering a groundbreaking contest in which the winner will receive $100,000. The premise of the contest: Make a video that doesn’t suck. In a press conference which can be seen below, a YouTube spokesperson states: “The only requirement for our winning video is that it be somewhat watchable …

It was only a matter of time until something like this popped up.  We feel everyone should channel their inner-plumber and take a “crack” at this.

This year we’ve seen presidential campaigns launched on YouTube, constant campaign updates on Twitter, and VP candidates announced via text mesage. We should have known it would only be a matter of time before DMCA take downs against campaign clips crept up. ArsTechnica: McCain/Palin campaign angry over bogus DMCA takedowns …

…on YouTube. Romney’s YouTube page still has him running for President.

You didn’t have to be from Detroit to see this one coming. Perhaps the best campaign ad this cycle. If you have any doubts about whether or not to watch this ad, don’t, it ends like this: “Sorry, congresswoman, but we deserve much better than ‘yaw’s boy.”‘

From Ambinder: So the RNC, in its video on Democrats who’ve criticized Obama, plays a sound bite of Sen. John Edwards noting Obama’s “high-falutin” language. The accompanying translation posted by the RNC also has Edwards talking about hot air… just hot air of a different kind.

If you read one article today, check out this one … and then go back to FacebookYouTubeGmailCraigslist. Howard Kurtz: Post Buyouts Come With an Emotional Cost Let’s not bury the lead: This is a rough time for the newspaper business, a rough time for The Washington Post and a rough …

Yesterday we featured Part One of our interview with two superdelegates. Today, Part Two: Is superdelegate even a word?  Why doesn’t my spell check recognize it? Awais: I don’t think it’s a word, but we are real, average people (as my minimal bank account and excess homework can attest to.) …

Last week we posted about two college Democrats who are garnering a lot of attention lately. Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel, President and Vice President of the College Democrats – aren’t ordinary college students- they are students with super-powers, who happen to be superdelegates. Because the Democratic Presidential nomination might …

If you are as sick of superdelegate talk as I am, than you’ll really get a kick out of this post.  “As President and Vice President of the College Democrats of America, Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel are both superdelegates at the Democratic Convention in Denver. They are both undecided …

If the McCain campaign is dumb enough to fire a blogger for posting an Obama video, shouldn’t they consider letting Meghan McCain go for posting this terrible YouTube clip?  [for the love of hypocrisy]  

Question: “Mr McCain do you know the difference between YouTube and MySpace?” [nice scoop]

Will.i.am, Jessica Alba, George Lopez, and Theodore Huxtable! These are powerful!