Barack Obama won the North Carolina primary last night, but he may have lost his #1 fan. And to Mike Gravel, that player hater!

Clay Shirky talks to Salon about online organizing, Obama Girl, and more; polls show Obama Girl is getting tiresome; the Hillary Clinton Deathwatch is keeping a close eye on Hillary's chances; Jeff Jarvis asks who should be the nation's CTO; now all of the candidates have produced versions of Hillary's "3am" ad; The John McCain Facebook Challenge encourages Republicans to befriend the McCainiac; and McCain's campaign hires a new web guru.

Weighing in at not quite 2 tons of fun, the McCain Girls are tearing up the YouTube charts and shattering a whole lot of eardrums. Are they hip? Do they make John McCain hip? The jury is still out on that.

And while the McCain Girls have racked up more than a half million views in just one week, they are still a good bit shy of the total number times people have watched John McCain sing that old Beach Boy's ditty. Combining the various clips and mash-ups of the ol' hipster singing "Bomb Iran," McCain has been viewed at least 5 million times. More than 1.1 million of those views were of his unedited clip. For my money, though, I prefer Mike Gravel's remake of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" to McCain's surf band homage:

It’s the return of our favorite political videos of the week! We look at a few clips from Iowa and New Hampshire that have become genuine cultural moments and that may have helped tip the polls, and a couple of voter-generated videos that fall flat.

Chris Dodd gets dugg; Glenn Greenwald has high praise for Chris Dodd and harsh words for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; Compete.com develops new charts to show where the candidates lie on the political spectrum; a new faux-od (fauxde?) to Ann Coulter from the makers of Obama Girl; two new excellent reports from Off The Bus; Generation Engage fails to engage the top tier of the GOP; and Jose Antonio Vargas does video with young voters.

It all started when “Obama Girl” got more attention in the post-CNN/YouTube debate “spin room” than Joe Biden. As I stood outside the spin room, I kept asking breathless spinners who had talked to the brunette charmer, “but what could you possible ask the Obama Girl? What does she have to say about politics”? Oh well. She’s hot. Who cares...but if I have to watch another slutty YouTube political video, I'm going to be sick.

I'm glad that TechPresident blogger David All posted the "I've Got a Crush...on Obama" video this morning, because it opens up a discussion that Josh Levy and I started having yesterday when we got the same email tip about the video that I presume David got. First off, do watch the video--it's hilarious, the lyrics are priceless ("You're into border security...let's break this border between you and me...Universal health care reform...it makes me warm"), and BarelyPolitical, the comedy team that wrote the music and filmed the video, should probably get hired by Saturday Night Live. (They're up to nearly 30,000 views on YouTube, by the way, as of this morning.) But is this a political video mashup or a job application? And in this day and age, should we care if it's both at the same time?