With the 2008 presidential elections creeping up, MySpace today announced that it will be holding a virtual presidential primary January 1 and 2. With thousands of Americans visiting MySpace daily, especially younger Americans, presidential candidates are taking the announcement quite seriously. The two day elections will encourage all MySpace users to vote and allow them to track votes after their vote is submitted.

A number of 2008 Presidential hopefuls already have MySpace pages. This includes Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, and Barack Obama.

The virtual election, though an interesting idea, raises the question of whether the results will actually be reliable. Making duplicate accounts on MySpace is quite easy and with very few methods to prevent this, the results of the virtual election could potentially be tampered with. However, considering the sheer size of MySpace (if it was a country it would be the 11th largest) it would require a lot of duplicate accounts to make a large difference.