Today, I happened upon an Obama video on YouTube of him defending several comments that he had made about small town people being bitter and hanging on to things like religion, gun laws, and no same-sex marriages. I was just about to close the tab when I noticed that on the right side of the YouTube page under the comments there was a Google Checkout Contribute box. Nifty, convenient, and helpful, but do the other Presidential Candidates have it on their videos?

Both Clinton and McCain do not have the Google Contribute box with their videos. For example, an official McCain video here & an official Clinton video here are missing this box possibly separating their respective campaigns from extra funding.

Do Clinton and McCain (of course they have other people who are in charge) know about this wonderful little Google Contribute box?
Both Clinton and Obama and some of the other Republican candidates seem to know how to integrate themselves into the online community. Obama’s website & Clinton’s website are centrally focused around a red, white, and blue America theme and seem much more inviting, lively, and interactive than McCain’s website with ARMY black, silver, gold theme. Also both Obama and Clinton have listings on their front page with links to all the "social communities" that they are "involved" in, Flickr photos, Twitter, Facebook… McCain is lacking any prominent display of social connection with the younger generation on his website. I wouldn’t mind "following" McCain on Twitter. This is why I doubted McCain would have the Contribution box; however, I was surprised to see Clinton’s video page devoid of such a key fundraising tool.

Does YouTube have some sort of affinity toward Obama?
I don’t know and doubt they do. I do however know that all three candidates have visited the GooglePlex within the past 2 years for some event or speech. YouTube had the "debates" this year and they still have an entire page devoted to U.S. Presidential politics, http://www.youtube.com/youchoose.

I just know that we should all be readying ourselves for Election Day. Have you registered to vote? You should!

A nifty aside; when you search for "register to vote" in Google both the California and Texas voter registration show up within the first 5 results. Oh yeah, Texas rules!