At least he is according to a survey done by Rock The Vote, with help from TouchTunes, a maker of jukeboxes. The survey was done through the jukeboxes, in bars all across America from April 28 through May 11. Though it is something of a bittersweet victory, since he did tie with "None of the above." Though that might say more about Hillary Clinton and John McCain, both of whom trailed behind the top two choices. Finally, the Democratic party has a candidate people want to get hammered with.

More from the survey below the fold.

Cross posted from Future Majority.

Yesterday Rock the vote released the first comprehensive polling of young voters since Super Tuesday.  There's nothing hugely shocking about the results if you have been following the youth vote, but the results are certainly worth noting as they provide further confirmation to what many youth advocates have been saying for a long time now.

You can view their power point, or thumb through the toplines and crosstabs for yourself, on their website (pdf).  The poll was via landline and cellphone with 668 18 - 29 year olds.  Latinos and African Americans were oversampled.   The margin of error is +/- 4.4%

So why has Sen. Obama, more so than any other Democratic candidate, chosen to put a focus on the young vote?

Over the weekend, Biden and Richardson announced that they do not support the right of Iowa students from out of state to caucus.  Dodd has had four different positions in the span of as many days.  The Clinton campaign seemed to retract her earlier comments and then not so much.

What is so shocking is that so few in the Democratic Party establishment and no one else in the Democratic primary field has weighed in on behalf of the utterly unproblematic, long-held progressive position that students have every right, and should be strongly encouraged, to register to vote.  How hard can this be?

In November 2004, just days before election day, voters received this mailer (pdf) from the Iowa Republican Party on behalf of state representative Danny Carol, who later apologized but was defeated in 2006:

Rock the Vote and Working Assets are proud to announce the public availability of our new online voter registration 'widget.'  Any group or individual (regardless of partisan or legal/organizational status) who wants to help register voters on their website is invited to sign up and get code to post the widget here: http://registertovoteonline.org/

A recurring theme in the many technology-focused panels and workshops at YearlyKos this year was the idea of "breaking out of the walled garden" (as Mike Connery of Future Majority put it). A "walled garden" being things like Facebook, MySpace, or even My.BarackObama.com. It refers to any website where all the activity is contained to that site, rather than allowed to organically spread to other sites and other media (beyond just the Internet). Tearing down these walls is critical to building the progressive movement online.

One of the touted up-and-coming solutions to this problem is "widgets," embeddable pieces of a web page that let you use another site's tools on your own site. An example of this is the Working Assets / Rock the Vote online voter registration widget. It's on a few different sites such as LiveEarth (down at the bottom) and of course, Rock the Vote itself. But no matter where it is, it pulls up the same form from the same site. Effectively, it allows any site to put a cool voter registration form on their page.

But here's where the emperor's clothes start coming off. More after the flip.