We'll have to view the game tape to see who, in the end, actually turned out to vote this election. But as of noon ET today, more than 2 million people in the coveted Facebook demographic say they've cast a ballot already; In what is, sadly, the final side-by-side comparison of the two presidential candidate's emails, McCain might be able to claim victory over Obama; An article on the Columbia Journalism Review's site makes some controversial assertions about the McCain campaign's online outreach. The premise is that while the Obama campaign has tried to engage the progressive blogosphere on its own terms, Camp McCain "takes a top-down approach;" and a great deal more.

We've been arguing for a while here on techPresident that the candidate who best used the internet to enable his supporters to join in co-creating the campaign would have a big edge come November. Now we're seeing what Isaac Garcia, CEO of Central Desktop, called the rise of the "long tail of politics": tremendous metrics as the Obama get-out-the-vote operation goes into the final stretch. Those numbers include 50,000 new events organized using myBO in the last three weeks, at least 20,000 neighborhood team leaders, 1.9 million newly registered voters, and 13.3 million voter contacts.

If the air seems to be crackling with excitement today, it might be because Google has just connected up Google Maps with the Voting Information Project (VIP) polling place data that it and Pew and JEHT have been working to compile. Hooray!; Text messages sent on Election Day that urge recipients to vote increase turnout by 4.6 percentage points, according a just-released study by CREDO Mobile and Student PIRGs New Voters Project; The Republican National Committee is eager to keep focus on how tight-lipped the Obama campaign has remained about its contributors who fall under the law's $200 mandatory disclosure mark. And so, yesterday, the RNC released a database of GOP small donors. The thing is, the thing doesn't actually work -- at least, not in any meaningful way; and a good amount more.

November 4th, a.k.a. Election Day, is just 50 days away. Everyone from the presidential campaigns to independent activists are turning their attention to the ground game; Is the liberal-leaning Netroots getting played by the GOP? A provocative though unsigned comment highlighted by the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, a passionate Obama supporter, makes the case that indeed it is; The Democratic National Committee's new "Count the Lies" addition to its McCainpedia wiki takes a savvy tack on fact checking; and a whole lot more.

A new study indicates that text messaging can increase youth voter turnout; the Huffington Post/Yahoo/Slate mashup debate is rolling, and it turns out we can use Jumpcut to edit the footage after all, but we're somewhat disappointed with its format and execution; CBC radio produces a great piece featuring an interview with techPresident's Micah Sifry; and will Ron Paul be elected President of Web 2.0?