Thanks to your support, Why Tuesday? was today named the winner of the MySpace IMPACT Award for Social Justice!

The race was neck-and-neck the entire way and the final difference between us and the second-place finisher was 3.1 percent! Every vote counted, so everything you did helped.

Because of your efforts, Why Tuesday? will recieve $10,000 and free promotion throughout MySpace over the next month.

If you haven’t friended us on MySpace, now’s a good time, because with any luck we’ll be joined by thousands of new MySpace friends interested in the health of our democracy soon!

http://myspace.com/whytuesday

You had the power to help us win — and you flexed your muscle! Please know your efforts deeply appreciated by our entire team, and we hope to continue to have the pleasure of making a difference together going forward.

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Thanks to everyone who voted for us to win the MySpace IMPACT Award for Social Justice. The winner will be announced Monday by MySpace IMPACT.

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I’m pumped to announce that Why Tuesday? is nominated for the MySpace IMPACT Award in the Social Justice category. The IMPACT Awards honor “MySpace members for the positive impact they’ve had on our culture.” You can learn more here:

http://myspace.com/impactawards

You can vote for us over at MySpace by clicking the button in the center column of our homepage, or by visiting:

http://myspace.com/impactawards

We stand to win $10,000 to be put towards our efforts and in-kind promotion on the MySpace front page. Vote now!

http://myspace.com/impactawards

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This election season has seen the leading Presidential candidates adopt the tools of new media at encouraging — even exciting — rates. The key to what makes this round different from previous cycles is new media in general and social networking in particular empower all people, not just the pros. So even where a candidate affirmatively takes action, his/her supporters can go miles beyond. Ron Paul’s supporters have been Exhibit A in this case, but as the campaign season marches on, we see more and more examples of the virtuous cycle social networks facilitate.

The latest example is exceptional. Senator Obama’s campaign created a place on MySpace for his Washington state supporters to show their support and organize for the caucuses. Those efforts led to several young people not only participating in the process, but getting themselves elected precinct delegates, and then telling stories of their efforts back on MySpace. (more…)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Earlier this month we brought you the results of the MySpace IMPACT Presidential Primary poll. One stat that we found particularly interesting here: 11,453 votes were cast for making Election Day a national voting holiday in order to increase voter turnout. That was 41.26% of the vote for that question.

Today I had a chance to interview, live via iChat, Lee Brenner, the Director of MySpace IMPACT, who was in Washington, D.C., about the results of the poll and what New Media means to this election cycle. The video is after the jump. (more…)

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Exit polling from the results of the MySpace Presidential Primary (Jan 1-2):

See the rest of the exit polling at http://impact.myspace.com.

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Think the Iowa Caucus is the first presidential contest in the nation? Think again. Friend of Why Tuesday? MySpace Impact (check out our MySpace page) is holding an online presidential primary before a single vote is cast in either Iowa or New Hampsire… and you can participate! Here are the details direct from MySpace:

Beginning on Tuesday, January 1 at 3:01 am EST, MySpace will invite its community to participate in the first MySpace Presidential Primary on the Impact Channel. Taking place just prior to the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primaries, the largest online community will be the first to choose their candidate for the nation’s highest office. Polls will close Wednesday, January 2 at 11:59 pm EST.

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The good news: looks like Why Tuesday? has hit the big-time… almost.

I was reading the December 24th issue of Time magazine and noticed that as part of the cover story yours truly and WT? Director of Photography Tom Macker are featured in a photo as we interview Senator John McCain.

We were at the MTV/MySpace presidential dialogue in Manchester, New Hampshire to ask Senator McCain to respond to the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge, which he did.

Check out the photo, and a tiny bit of bad news, after the jump. (more…)

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