LOS ANGELES – Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet “friend” of Barack Obama now have a new online opportunity.
MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.
Called the Impact Channel, it’s the latest attempt by an Internet company to educate voters by serving as an information hub for political candidates and the public. Users can link to the personal pages or “profiles” of 10 presidential hopefuls.
Democrats Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich have set up MySpace profiles. Republicans McCain, Rudolph Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul also have pages.
MySpace users will be able to read the candidates’ blogs, see photos and video and, if they choose, link their favorite candidate to their friends list or put a candidate’s ad onto their own pages.
Some candidates, taking advantage of the Internet’s potential to reach millions of voters, have already set up their own campaign Web sites and profiles on other social networking Web sites, including Facebook and Friendster.
Earlier this month, the online video site YouTube launched a new section that allows candidates to feature their own video “channels” at no cost.
The Impact Channel is at http://impact.myspace.com.
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