Hillary Clinton's online operation is adapting the traditional tactics of polling and direct mail to survey subscribers of the campaign's email list.  Political campaigns have always contacted donors and potential supporters via phone polls or direct mail appeals, but Clinton's campaign is going one step further, applying similar techniques to obtain a potentially more honest portrait of its email list. 

I wrote about this survey on Huffington Post's Off the Bus, but come take a look at some of my findings after the jump.

Our Voice 2008 is a new, nonpartisan youth politics site that is snap-polling its users on topical issues and providing its users with the means to break down that data by state for display on websites and social networking profiles. But to become useful to campaigns, media outlets, or nonprofits it needs a critical mass.

The candidate most effective at reaching women online will have a serious edge in the primary election. Why? More women vote than men. More women are online than men. Given the importance of reaching women online, all of the presidential campaigns have weak online operations for targeting women. Women make the key difference to primary victories, and although each presidential campaign has staff focused on women, they are doing very little to effectively target women online.