From techPresident:

It appears that all pro-McCain profiles at MySpace were deleted because of a miscommunication between McCain’s staff and the company. Here is the official announcement:

Over the last couple of weeks, the eCampaign at John McCain 2008 has been working to get a new website launched and begin engaging in the social networks. When I joined MySpace, I was proud to see the strong grassroots efforts people like you were making on behalf of Senator McCain and his campaign for President. I joined many of those groups with excitement.

In the last few days, we at the campaign began a discussion with MySpace about creating an official profile for Senator McCain. In the course of that conversation, a member of my team miscommunicated the campaign’s plans to MySpace, leading to the removal of all the pro-McCain grassroots pages created by supporters like you. Following the example of Senator McCain and in the interests of “straight talk,” I wanted to you to know exactly what transpired. When this miscommunication came to my attention, I immediately began working with MySpace to resurrect those sites, taking the issue to the highest levels of the company. Unfortunately, that effort was not successful. When content is deleted at MySpace it cannot be recreated.

I am extremely disappointed and sorry that this has happened. It is not only unfair to supporters like you who have worked so hard on Senator McCain’s behalf, it is a disservice to the campaign as we now have no forums in which to reach all those supporters you had worked to assemble.

I would like you to know that we will soon be launching an official John McCain profile at MySpace. I hope you will consider joining that group and trying to help recreate the strong presence of John McCain supporters in MySpace. I would also be glad to see you re-start your McCain group. If there is anything I can do to assist that effort, please let me know and I would be happy to personally help.

Please accept my sincere apologies once again. I wish there was something that could be done to change what has happened, but all I can ask is your help in moving forward and rebuilding. I hope we’ll be working closely together as the campaign progresses.

Sincerely,

Christian Ferry

National eCampaign Director

John McCain 2008

I am rather surprised it has taken McCain’s camp this long to put together a MySpace profile. There isn’t a lot of laborious work involved. From my repeated criticism of McCain’s Web site (despite the fact, mind you, that McCain advertises here constantly) you know I don’t have a lot of good things to say about McCain’s web effort. Still I am hoping they will turn things around.

Latest polling results:
1) An astonishingly high amount of those polled 65% say they are interested in the ‘08 election. It isn’t even March 2007 yet, that is a huge number.
2) Giuliani has a 2-1 lead over McCain (though his standing on social issues make even those who support him now less likely to vote for him in the long run according to those polled)
3) Romney got killed in this round polling lower than Newt Gingrich who currently is not running
4) Clinton still leads Dems but Obama is gaining. The gain is 100% attributed to black voters

Well we have one day left in February so I thought I would go ahead and put together my monthly recap.

Little actually happened in the campaign this month. Some people announced their runs, No big surprises, and two candidates got into a spat, not such a big deal if you ask me. When David Geffen & Maureen Dowd are the epicenter of a political fight I wouldn’t exactly say it was substantive.

The spat did two things. First it filled a void of little to nothing major to report on this month. Sure there was Anna Nicole and Britney but not hard news. Nor was Obama and Hillary but without them somebody might actually have had to look into what is going on in Iran. I mean, someone other than Seymour Hersh.

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First Giuliani’s planning documents made it to the Internet and the hands of his rivals and now its Mitt Romney’s. Part of me wonders if these aren’t deliberate leaks and part of me is really questioning the Republicans as of late. Normally they are the top-down, buttoned up, ready to roll party who would be out in force by this time of the year and by the end of July or August would have settled on a candidate. This year? Not so much.

I understand President Bush’s popularity isn’t helping nor are the 2006 election losses, but somebody needs to take the Republicans up. When they aren’t even going after Hillary Clinton, something just isn’t right.

Written in light of the Amanda Marcotte episode with the John Edwards campaign Lindsay Beyerstein tells her story at Salon and does a good job of summing up many of my own thoughts about blogging and elections.