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Some signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will use his massive Internet following are starting to surface.

The President’s weekly radio address, a staple of American politics since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, will be posted to YouTube, starting this week with the Democratic address (the party not in power has also traditionally broadcast a weekly radio soundbite).

Michael Tiemann's blog: "It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain's ran on proprietary software.

But what is not a stretch at all is that Barack Obama's campaign built a powerful synergy between grass-roots politics and grass-roots technology, while presenting what many consider to be the most disciplined campaign of any candidate in modern history."

I and just about everyone on the so-called tech blogosphere’s A-List just got the follow notice on Twitter that Al Gore, the so-called inventor of the Internet, had finally decided to tweet as promised.

November 4, 2008, election day in the United States. As votes are cast right across America to determine who will become the 44th president, we take a look at where the sympathies of some of the key anti-piracy and filesharing figures lie, with a particular interest in RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol, who is a keen John McCain supporter.

Out of all 535 representatives in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Ron Paul (TX) is rated number one for tech-related proposals, scoring 88.24%.

Sen. John McCain (AZ) scores 38.46%, and Sen. Barack Obama (IL) scores 33.33%.

InternetNews: "As the presidential election approaches, there's little discussion in the media of the leading candidates' positions regarding technology issues.

While that's more than understandable when immediate concerns like the economic crisis loom large, the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on technology policy are worth a look."

Two weeks remain in the biggest online-enabled United States presidential race ever.

The majority of the polls have Barack Obama leading in most states. However, nothing is final. The “swing states” are the final opportunity for either candidate to gain traction and solidify their candidacy as the future President of the United States of America.

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YouTube on Tuesday rebuffed a request from John McCain's presidential campaign to examine fair-use issues more carefully before yanking campaign videos in response to DMCA takedown notices.

"We hope that as a content uploader, you have gained a sense of some of the challenges we face everyday in operating YouTube."

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