From Twitter Vote Report and Huffington Post's Off the Bus project, to NPR's crowdsourced Inauguration '09 coverage and ProPublica's new distributed reporting network and its coverage of the stimulus spending, a new kind of hybrid "pro-am" collaborative journalism is taking shape, one that is powered by a mix of professional journalists, savvy tech

Color of Change pushes the popular vote as the Democratic decider; a video of John McCain being asked about a calling his wife a nasty name; Sidney Blumenthal's been sending around Obama rumor emails -- will he blame the "vast right-wing conspiracy"?; The GroundReport and the future of news; bloggers see the momentum shifting Clinton's way; robo-call voice Lamont Williams Twitters; and the Clinton campaign asks supporters to make t-shirts but still doesn't get online community.

Hillary wins PA, boxing metaphors take over the universe; John McCain is the ultimate winner of PA, and liberal groups keep attacking; Off The Bus provides the sanest coverage of the primary; Willie Horton ad-man Floyd Brown re-emerges; the Lieberman/Lamont hackery fracas rears its ugly head, again; Alan Rosenblatt live on Johnny's Par-tay tonight at 9 ET!; and the Obama campaign posts a video of... Chuck Todd.

Cindy McCain steals recipes from the web!; Jay Rosen has it out with members of the MSM covering Bittergate; Aaron Swartz launches the excellent watchdog.net; a new vid pairs John McCain with George Bush, again; the Obama campaign calls McCain and Clinton on their lobbyist connections; and the Nader campaign enters the 21st century with a pretty good YouTube video. Leave Ralph Nader alone!

Semi-pro campaign journalism gets a mid-term review; Republican consultant launches NoJohn.com; Chuck DeFeo shares his secrets for getting attention online; Obama gets naked with his earmarks, will Clinton follow?; and now you can listen in too on those campaign conference calls.

Obama's neglect of the netroots bores progressive bloggers; Obama's broad coalition of supporters, cultivated online, may negate the need for the netroots; dueling "red telephone" ads and a much-needed parody; six seconds of silence on a Clinton campaign call; a new aggregation site has a misleading about page; what if Bloomie were stilling running?; and Off The Bus profiles a whopping 200 superdelegates.

Barack Obama and John McCain sweep the Potomac Primaries; but while Obama enjoys all kinds of voter-generated support, there's nothing on the tubes in support of McCain; a new blog tracks the online advertising habits of the candidates; what if bloggers had access to the candidates? We can dream; a social greeting card wishes John Edwards well; a Norwegian perspective on the election; an online jokester gets serious; stop teh we can haz cheesburger madnez!; and some insight into Obama's text-messaging operation.

Jay Rosen explains why campaign coverage sucks, but does it nicely; Zack Exley gets in-depth about the Clinton campaign's field operation; political journalists are Twittering; allegations of voter suppression from the Clinton campaign in Nevada are gaining traction; expat Democrats can now vote in the primaries online; Micah Sifry schools Brian Lehrer on online political video; Duncan Hunter drops out; and Fred Thompson is still in it for now, though is obits are being written anyway.

Off the Bus' Kristin Gorski asks if all this digital detritus is hurting or helping the election; Tom Tancredo bows out, but leaves behind his legacy on immigration; Curt Schilling is a verbose blogger, but maybe we need more of those!; and Jake Tapper uncovers two anti-Obama URLs connected to the Clinton campaign.

The Giuliani Quote Generator Facebook app automates absurdist phrases; Off The Bus speaks truth to the polls, launches its new Polling Project; Ask Your Lawmaker Diggifies the public's questions to the candidates; is Karl Rove a better pundit than Markos Moulitsas?; A clip from the Joe Scarborough show is another example of journalists focusing on anything but the issues; VetVoice, a site devoted to veterans' issues in the campaign, launches with a number of candidate posts on the way; analyzing and voting on campaign logos; a new Obama video takes health care head-on; and TechCrunch interviews John Edwards.