Campaign coverage for the digerati

Stay up-to-date with our coverage from the campaign trail, which goes past whistle-stop towns, into the far corners of the blogosphere, social networks, and beyond. And to see what U.S. presidential candidates have to say on all things technology, check out CNET News.com's 2008 Technology Voters' Guide.

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Handshakes, not the Internet, win N.H. for Clinton and McCain

The New Hampshire presidential primary showed that two candidates who are underdogs on the Internet are perfectly viable in the real world.
January 9, 2008

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me

The front-running Democrat in the New Hampshire primary makes the promise in one last stump speech at an election day rally with the Facebook generation.
January 8, 2008

New Hampshire voters: Net neutrality? Huh?

Despite our best efforts to unearth tech-inclined voters, Net neutrality doesn't ring a bell with most residents we interviewed in the Granite State.
January 8, 2008

Clinton vs. Obama: The robocall edition

With one day to go before New Hampshire's primary, the Clinton campaign has accused Obama's camp of violating political communication laws.
January 7, 2008

Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates?

The wildly popular social-networking site generated millions of bytes of comments during Saturday night's Democratic and Republican debates, too many for any human to ever hope to read.
January 6, 2008

Clinton: Time to digitize all Americans' medical records

In her first New Hampshire campaign stop after a third-place Iowa finish, the Democrat also calls for oil companies to fund research on alternative energy technology.
January 4, 2008

McCain woos military tech makers in N.H.

Yet presidential candidate also calls for revamping how all contracts are awarded. "I'm hard on people who waste the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars," he says.
January 4, 2008

Online protests seek to include Ron Paul in N.H. debate

ABC News has invited the presidential candidate to a debate Saturday. Bloggers, online activists are irked because Fox News is excluding him from one a day later.
January 4, 2008

Surprise! Barack Obama, Ron Paul win MySpace 'primaries'

Both parties' Web favorites are named the winners among the "MySpace generation." But that doesn't make the outcome of real primaries any clearer.
January 3, 2008

Giuliani: I'm not riding that Segway. No way

The would-be president shows up at a Segway factory in New Hampshire, but refuses to ride one. A 70-year-old CBS News anchor does instead.
January 3, 2008

MTV's 'Choose or Lose' announces citizen journalism campaign

The Viacom division has launched a mobile-centric initiative to bring nontraditional reporting to the 2008 election.
December 19, 2007

MySpace touts early success with political polling initiative

The News Corp.-owned social network says its young membership is more politically active and less adherent to party affiliations than the general population.
December 12, 2007

Colbert fan group on Facebook soars like an eagle

The "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen Colbert" group on Facebook, founded to support the gag presidential campaign, actually hits a million members--in just over a week.
October 26, 2007

Photo galleries

Scenes from the N.H. primary
Our reporters have been on the campaign trail for the nation's first primary. Here's a glimpse of the 2008 primary in photographs.

A techie touts Ron Paul
One very active supporter of the Republican now campaigning in N.H. is Vijay Boyapati, a Googler who quit his job to help bring out the voters.

At factory, Giuliani avoids a Segway ride
When campaigning at transporter plant, presidential candidate stays on solid ground, avoiding potential embarrassment.