The MySpace Campaign

For all of you who might not be as interested in actual campaign mechanics or how politics works, you can now be the MySpace candidate for President.

So: is this the future? My guess is that this will reveal a sort of MySpace political microcosm, where the Insiders (i.e., people with the most MySpace friends) and special interest groups (maybe the bands with the coolest page) override the true MySpace grassroots movement and force a candidate into the winner's circle, against the wishes and desires of who The People really want.

Producers say the hope behind the show is to engage young people. However, since Rupert Murdoch owns MySpace, its probably a thinly veiled attempt to identify troublemakers long before they can run for office, and then take them out preemptively by having them create a MySpace page.

(Note to prospective candidates: MySpace pages are a bad idea.)