Pete Ashdown...

Using the techie world, and trying to appeal to the younger more progressive generation...Pete Ashdown continues to draw my attention, even though he's facing the most impossible uphill Senate battle out there.

Technology policy rarely makes for compelling campaign theater -- and rarer still moves the body politic -- but I can't help rooting for Pete Ashdown.

In a political mismatch of almost biblical proportions, the tech-savvy Democrat is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Utah Republican Orrin Hatch.

Hatch is a popular incumbent who has polled over 62 percent in past elections. Apparently, Utahans couldn't care less about the Republican senator's slavish endorsement of entertainment industry-backed bills that would, without understatement, create the equivalent of a copyright police state.

Ashdown is a political novice with impeccable tech credentials. He founded the first independent ISP in Utah, used to DJ raves, and uses a collaborative wiki for his campaign.

Pete Ashdown has a MySpace page. It almost makes me want to get one, just so i can be his "friend." I encourage all of you folks who have submitted to the FBI Watchlist that is MySpace - join him, support him, encourage him... Hatch is pure evil.