The Next Right launches; is Slatecard the "Republican ActBlue"?; Hillary Clinton's bad day; it's the network, stupid; Barack Obama is the jukebox favorite; Al Franken continues to get hounded by bloggers; Newt Gingrich hints at a 2012 or 2016 run; and Hillary and Barack dance in Puerto Rico.

A new song wants to convince John McCain to fire the lobbyists working for his campaign; the DNCC blog dust-up continues; The Next Right is set to launch next week; a catalog of robo-calls from around the country; the ultimate "nightmare ticket"; two funny, meaningless bits of web-detritus; a forum on Online Political Participation at NYU in June; buy a Barack Obama and Raul Castro tea set from the RNC; analyzing Obama and McCain's SEO skillz; an analysis of McCain's new web site; and an Alaska Senatorial candidate pledges to post his calendar online.

Conservative strategists team up to produce a new grassroots site for the right; some conservative bloggers are supporting Barack Obama, and some netroots bloggers are going for Clinton, while cats and dogs start living together; anti-Obama hoax emails are still making the rounds; a new Brave New Films video ties John McCain to another radical pastor; Obama gets vampiric in a new musical; Yes we shall... support Cobra Commander for president; Hillary Clinton has a secret meeting with a party official, and we have the footage; and Andrew Rasiej is crowned as a "czar" of the New York tech scene.