McCain - Your Grandpa Who Tries Too Hard

Yet again, John McCain makes a play "for the youts." I don't know about you, but I think this video just screams "I'm relevant." The best part about it is that the embed functionality is totally busted unless you want an auto-playing loop in an ill-fitting frame on your blog.

And how's McCainspace's new "Generation 08" doing?

That's right, a whopping two members. To be fair, it's only been a day since the official launch, but hey, maybe it's also all the stiff competition from the College Republican's Storm Network. Or, I don't know - the real MySpace, or that FaceSpace thingum? Or maybe it's just yet another crap social network that no one wants to join. Why hop on a social network with little to no social network opportunities compared to the already robust social network you are already a part of?

Or maybe, as PEW found out in its new poll today, it's just that fewer and fewer young people are identifying as Republicans. PEW found that 37% of 18 - 29 year olds identify as Democrats, compared to just 23% who identify as Republicans. If you add in "leaners," those numbers jump to 55 to 36%.

Kind of hard to startup a social network when your brand is electoral poison.