Pushing the next president to use participatory media; GOP.com launches the Obama Spendometer; if we get President's Day off, shouldn't we get Election Day off?; comparing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's organizing philosophies; Ron Paul staffers describe his online campaign, deride Obama has too top down; how do offline GOTV operations actually work?; Vermont's having a primary too, and ice cream moguls Ben and Jerry are riding around in their ObamaMobile to support Barack.

A new wiki documents the Clinton campaign's use of racialist attacks on Barack Obama; discovering some distressingly racist and homophobic content in Ron Paul's newsletters; OpenCongress launches MyOpenCongress; Why Tuesday talks to Lee Brenner of MySpace Impact; a video on Current calls out Mitt Romney about his dismissive approach to medical marijuana; and a request for a recall of New Hampshire primary votes is approved.

Journalists, bloggers, pollsters, and pundits flagellate themselves for being so wrong about New Hampshire; Glenn Greenwald calls the media "adolescent, coddled narcissists"; one blogger thinks Memeorandum is the best way to get election news; Why Tuesday continues to get the cold shoulder from Mitt Romney; Barack Obama is the most-mentioned candidate on Twitter; Obama and Clinton release post-New Hampshire fundraising numbers; and Bill Richardson drops out, yet there are still six GOP candidates!

The New Hampshire blog Blue Hampshire gets a profile in the Wall Street Journal; Why Tuesday gets responses about election reform from 11 out of 16 candidates; two conservative bloggers filed an FEC complaint against Hillary Clinton; are Ron Paul supporters using botnets to send out thousands of spam emails?; Joe Trippi and Cyrus Krohn, mano-a-mano; Ed Markey taps the opinions of DailyKos readers; and Stephen Colbert's Facebook group is generated an uptick in registered voters.

Off The Bus and Scoop08, two citizen-journalism efforts tracking the election, get the New York Times treatment; a Republican CNN/YouTube debate is confirmed (I thought that already happened?); what is the meaning of Stephen Colbert's continued popularity on Facebook?; Why Tuesday posts some responses to its Candidate Challenge; and Barack Obama participates in the MTV/MySpace online dialogue, and does well (at least that's what this video-disabled blogger heard).

Here it is, this week's installment of our favorite online political videos. Dig in for a video from liberal commentator Jim Hightower, a new song from the folks who brought you Obama Girl, fun with tagging, an explanation of just what is going on in the Iowa caucuses, John McCain's celebration of his "I was tied up" remark, and more.

As always, your suggestions for the week's top videos are welcome. Send them to info AT techpresident DOT com.

Barack Obama continues to take hits from the progressive netroots; RedState makes the mistake of banning Ron Paul supporters from its site; new Ron Paul graphs fun; Mashable posts a primer on online politics; Why Tuesday's Jacob Soboroff his heading to Iowa, and wants us to know exactly how the caucuses work; netroots darling Chris Dodd shows up on FireDogLake; and details on his second place finish in a DailyKos straw poll.

Using Me.dium to chat with viewers of today's MTV/MySpace dialogue with John Edwards; why do we vote on Tuesday? The "Why Tuesday" video explains; the return of Chris Dodd's Talk Clock; Rudy Giuliani beams into supporters' homes using the "world wide web"; the finalists for Mitt Romney's ad contest have been announced, but no Slate videos are represented; and Chris Dodd sends a new kind of email.