In the news this week, was the launch by the Obama campaign of the FightThe Smears.com site.  Makes sense since everyone knows this will be an incredibly ugly campaign.  Ralph Reed has supposedly said recently that there's no way McCain will win this election, but Obama may lose it.  I see this unfolding as the Republicans throwing as much crap as they can at Obama.  If he can't do a strong enough job of responding, he loses.

The Fight The Smears site isn't really a site; that domain name simply redirects to a page on the MyBO site.  My instinct would have been to make it more free-standing.  I would agree with Kevin Drum's observation that the content structure will be hard to maintain once the accusations start piling up.  Do you only show the newest smears at the top? What about will become of Golden Oldies by July, such as the Muslim smear? If a smear is "popular," shouldn't it be immediately apparent as you visit that page?

(I'm not suggesting Fight the Smears should turn into a All-Barry-All-The-Time version of Snopes.com.)

By the way, I haven't been paying attention to the campaign blogs, but I would draw your attention to the critique of the McCain and Obama blogs by Mike Turk. if the content he describes is accurate, then the Obama campaign is on the wrong track. Don't be scared off by the Amanda Marcotte incident; a blog should be bloggy to succeed.