YouTube attack on Hillary Clinton

It's a factor that politicians and strategest have never had to consider.  YouTube is already taking its place in the 2008 Presidential election as the first "viral attack" has taken place.  The target:  democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It's a "mash-up" of Ridley Scott's 1984 Super Bowl commercial that portrayed IBM as an Orwellian Big Brother and introduced Apple's Macintosh as the bright new vanguard of computing and Hillary's video blog from her site.

The clip, titled "Vote Different" and posted on YouTube on March 5, is one of the most watched on the video-sharing site. On Monday it had more than 500,000 views. By yesterday, after a day of mainstream media attention, it had passed a million, with text comments and video responses pouring in. Online pundits agree that it's a brilliant piece of agitprop, expertly produced.

No one seems to know who posted the blog, and Barak Obama's campaign says they weren't invovled.

The backstory: It was first posted on March 5 by someone calling themselves ParkRidge47 -- Clinton was born in 1947 and raised in Park Ridge, Ill. -- on YouTube. The poster has never come forward to take credit, and has been heard from only at the techpresident.com Web site, after editor Micah Sifry wrote to ask how it all happened.

This is just the beginning of the voice behind the internet in this 2008 election.    Maybe it will get more voters involved?