It's been clear for some time that the McCain campaign is way behind the Obama campaign in all kinds of social media metrics. But maybe all that webby stuff doesn't matter as much as the ability to turn out the troops on the ground. But it doesn't look like the McCain phone banking operation is anywhere as big as Obama's.

When a top Republican official in Florida reports getting 7 phone calls from Obama volunteers (because she signed up on the Obama site to keep track of its activities), and none from McCain volunteers, you know something is up. Here's a quick look under the hood of the Obama calling operation.

America is using these relatively quiet days of summer to carefully weigh John McCain and Barack Obama's differing visions for putting America back at the cutting edge of scientific innova...no, not really. Sigh. We're busy talking celebrity this and celebrity blah blah blah blah; Sprinkled across the U.S.A. are nearly 200,000 returned Peace Corps volunteers, and now some of them are trying to bring home some votes for Barack Obama; The Democratic side of the House Education committee has released a snappy movie-trailer style short video promoting the upcoming premiere on the House floor of the Higher Education Opportunity Act; and so much more that it would take a full two episodes of "Behind the Music" to cover it all.