Hillary Clinton Has Only 458 Friends, Obama has 5738

Digg.com now features a 2008 US Presidential candidate support section where individuals can join "friend" networks in a similar vein as MySpace.  And one of the bigger surprises is that front runner candidate Hillary Clinton only has 458 "friends" in her Digg.com support base compared to Barack Obama's 5738.

Even Republican Mike Huckabee has more "friends" in his network: a total of 588 to be exact.

Dennis Kucinch has 4950 while Mike Gravel has 1665.  Even John Edwards has more "friends" than Hillary - 837.

You can now check out the 2008 presidential candidates profiles on Digg! Add your favorite candidates as a friend to show support, and to see all their Digging activity in your friends' activity feed. Many of them will be Digging, commenting and even submitting content.

On the Digg the Candidate's main page you will see a star next to each article by each candidate's name, this article is the candidate's most recent favorite. When you add a candidate as a friend, a box will also be created on your profile showing which candidates you have added.

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.