The Web on the Candidates

• He's done it: The Facebook group set up to support Stephen Colbert, the newest addition to the presidential race, has now gained more than one million members. Its name, "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert," is an homage to the Barack Obama group, "One Million Strong For Barack," which still hasn't broken the 400,000 mark. The fact that Colbert, who is a joke candidate, gained so many online supporters in so little time means that either political support on Facebook is still poorly understood, or Colbert is actually catching on. Either way, it's now primary time. Is South Carolina ready?
• RedState's decision to restrict Ron Paul acolytes from commenting on the conservative site is continuing to resonate in the blogosphere. Andrew Sullivan reacts to the assertion that Paul's supporters are made up of "Code Pink activists and Neo Nazis," and welcomes their comments. "The Dish [Sullivan's blog] believes in expanding the range of debate among conservatives, not crushing it," Sullivan writes. Meanwhile, Paul came in fourth place, at 7.4 %,in a new poll of New Hampshire voters, the first time offline polls have shown this level of support for Paul.
• GeniusRocket -- the user-generated ad site created by Howard Dean vets -- has announced the GeniusRocket Primary, in which they're handing out $17,000 in prizes to folks who create the best 30-second presidential campaign ads. The winners will be partly chosen by the community on the site. "The number of votes and your overall rating from the community is taken into consideration by our judging panel when determining finalists," says the site. "Taken into consideration" is kind of vague; it's unclear what ultimate role the voters will have versus the judges. [UPDATE] There are two rounds. In the first both viewers and judges determine the finalists; in the second, just the viewers choose the winners.

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Breaking news: The top community-voted question on 10Questions.com as of 10 AM EST on Monday, 10/29 will be asked in that day's MySpace/MTV Obama dialogue, which is taking place at 1:30 EST at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. The forum will stream live on MySpace.com, MTV's ChooseOrLose.com and MTV Mobile, and will air at 7 p.m. ET that evening on MTV. The last event with John Edwards was very well done, and we're looking forward to participating in the next one.

Facebook has given us an unprecedented look inside the demographic breakdowns of its user base, writes Patrick Ruffini. For the first time, there's a model for quantifying who the early adopters on the Web are, and how they vote.

As of yesterday were up to 75 videos on 10Questions.com. The total number of votes was just more than 23,100 from 5,600 users, and we received about 1,500 unique visits. The top referrers were MSNBC, the Politico, AllMyFaves, the New York Times, organic Google search, the NYTimes Editorial Board blog, and Conservative Grapevine. Read more here.

David All writes that only Fred Thompson's blog made the recently launched memeorandum Leaderboard, which notes the (current) top 100 most-discussed sources.

Huckabee watching has led Zephyr Teachout into whole new worlds of the blogosphere. She there must be a Christian blogging community, but it wasn't until three major Christian bloggers endorsed Huckabee today that she started poking around some more.