If MySpace friends lists were voter rolls, things would be rosy for Democratic presidential candidates. That's the conclusion of Micah Sifry, writing at the Web site of the Personal Democracy Forum.
"To give you just one example," Sifry writes, "if you add up all the friends all the Republican candidates have on their MySpace pages, and compare it to all the friends the Ds have, the totals will amaze you: 4,007 to 51,471. If I take fringe candidates Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo out of that equation, the Republican total drops below 2,000."
Of course, listing oneself as a friend on MySpace and actually participating in the political process are two mighty different things. But Sifry has an interesting bit on why the Ds appear to be ahead on the Rs in cyberspace.
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