HAVING already launched a generation of Gwen Stefani clones and death-metal bands into fleeting Internet fame, MySpace -- the largest social-networking site -- is now setting its sights higher: to help elect the next president of the United States.
This week, the site will introduce a section dedicated to politics, with an emphasis on the 2008 presidential election. Called the Impact channel, it will be an online version of a town square, a collection of links to political MySpace pages that will make it easier for the site's 60 million American users per month -- many of them from the traditionally elusive and apathetic youth demographic -- to peruse the personal MySpace pages of, so far, 10 presidential candidates.
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