The 2008 Presidential Race Dumbed-Down on Myspace

I must admit, I haven’t been paying all that much attention to the upcoming presidential vote. The main reason being, I stopped watching The Daily Show in college. And yes, at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, I was lucky enough to be home watching Jon Stewart, and not in class. Hint: become an arts major, not a physics major.

But, thanks to RadarOnline, I now have a better idea of who our potential presidential front-runners are, and where they are in the race.

The key to my understanding? The perfect combination of Myspace and Saved By The Bell.

The presidential candidates have been using Myspace as a means to put their names and messages out there to the Wired Ones of America – the ones who are up on their technology, in with the trends, the bloggers, the “cool kids,” – you know…us. And what’s better proof of just how well they and their campaigners are doing? Their number of Myspace friends.

According to the site’s very helpful Saved By the Bell chart, it seems as though Barack Obama is the Zack Morris of ‘08 candidates. I wonder if Barack can pull off sporting such “natural” blonde locks and a nifty cell phone quite like the Zack Meister? Whatever he’s doing, he’s doing it right – he has over 100,000 Myspace friends. Almost as many as I have.

The other front-runners are Hillary Clinton, who falls into the A.C. Slater slot, John Edwards, who drops down to Jessie Spano status, and John McCain and Mitt Romney, who have fallen into Lisa Turtle World. All the rest are in Screech City, and we all know that is definitely not a good place to be.

Surprisingly, now with all of the wannabe prez’s Myspace pages and my beloved characters of Saved By The Bell to reference, I sorta-kinda know who is running for President!

Whether their Myspace pages will have a lasting effect on the votes is yet to be determined. And as to whether or not they use Myspace to gain financial support or to post videos of themselves to give those of us out there in the blogosphere a better understanding of who they are, I say, can’t we all just get along?

….which reminds me of a time when the gang at Bayside High joined forces and became Zack Attack. Their message? Friends Forever.

I think we could all learn something from this.