Will MySpace be to 2008 what MTV was to 2000?

Via Thomas Vander Wal I read that Senate candidate Allan Lichtman has taken his campaign to MySpace:

I got a new and different request today in a social site, a request to "add Allan Lichtman as a MySpace friend". While the campaign has an official Allan Lichtman for Congress site, I thought the MySpace page was a new and interesting approach, particularly for a candidate of the people.

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While, I know very little about Allan Lictman I added him as a friend as a marker to spend a little more time finding out about him and his campaign.

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Do we need a political social network? I really do not think that more verticals to social spaces are needed, but the social spaces we have need to stop being relative failures for the millions that use them and find them still frustrating.

So, for now I am a "friend" of Allan Lichtman on MySpace.

Lichtman isn't the first politician to have a MySpace page, though it's not always clear that the presence is official. I was able to find two Howard Dean pages (howard and Howard Dean, but Lichtman is the first politician I've heard of using MySpace as part of his campaign.