YouTube launches '08 campaign site

YouTube has launched a Website dedicated to the 2008 Presidential Campaign, dubbed YouChoose '08. The site will only contain official campaign videos from Democratic and Republican candidates. (No word on whether any videos will appear from the likes of Ralph Nader if he decides to run, or the other minor party candidates.)

The million dollar question is whether this site will take off in popularity or not. I suspect not, because if I want to watch official campaign videos, I can go to a candidate's Website for that. Not only that, but starting this summer (or maybe earlier), we'll be seeing all of the campaign videos we want to see on television.

I'll keep tabs on this site to see where it goes, if anywhere. If it's anything like YouTube's regular site, it's not going too far. At the rate that content providers are demanding that Google, YouTube's parent company, remove their clips from the site, YouTube's coolness had declined by another percentage point in the time it took you to read this.