MySpace will launch the ‘Impact Channel’ this week a space on their site devoted to the ‘08 presidential election. The ‘Channel’ will start with 10 candidates each of whom will have official pages.

Not surprisingly, MySpace executives predict that the site, founded in 2003, can help candidates influence younger swing voters. Some 86 percent of its American users are voting age, and even younger users are on campaign coordinators’ radar. “The election is a little less than two years away,” said Christian Ferry, the national e-campaign director for John McCain. “A 16- or 17-year-old today is going to be eligible to vote in 2008.”

In a related story the Washington Post notes that official campaign videos already posted to sites like YouTube are not the hit campaigns hoped them to be. As an example a short clip of candidate moment in which candidate John Edwards is caught combing his hair to the song ‘I’m So Pretty’ is far more popular then any of the official clips the candidate has placed on the site.

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of similar unofficial clips for almost all the candidates, such as Rudy Giuliani in drag & Hillary Clinton imposed over the famous Apple 1984 clip, that are all far more popular then any of the official messages.