With the rise of MySpace, YouTube and thousands of political blogs across the virtual landscape, and the real power of online marketing finally being realized on a large scope, candidates in the 2008 presidential election are understandably wasting no time trying to boost their Internet profiles.

With this in mind, Brian Easter has put together rankings of how the top three Democrats and Republicans are doing, as of March 25, in the trendy realms of MySpace, Alexa and Google…

MYSPACE FRIENDS
Barack Obama: 80,339
Hillary Clinton: 31,111
John Edwards: 15,793

Mitt Romney: 2,751
John McCain: 2,423
Rudy Giuliani: 1,469

ALEXA RANKING
Barack Obama: 11,246
Hillary Clinton: 17,417
John Edwards: 30,504

Mitt Romney: 114,000
Rudy Giuliani: 125,759
John McCain: 134,608

GOOGLE PAGERANK / INBOUND LINKS
Barack Obama: 6 / 7,130
John Edwards: 6 / 5,050
Hillary Clinton: 6 / 3,330

Rudy Giuliani: 6 / 1,750
Mitt Romney: 3 / 1,900
John McCain: 2 / 1,950

Conclusion: Democratic candidates are more web-savvy, as are Democratic voters. Of course, this has been the case since back when Al Gore invented the Internet, and they’ve still dropped back-to-back races to George W. Bush (a man who thinks there are multiple Internets).

So it means little. Howard Dean would have won in a landslide in 2004, the way Barack Obama is doing now, and all it got him a fairly quick exit from the race in the end. It wasn’t all a waste, though - Dean showed everyone the power of grassroots, web-based organizing and fundraising.

We’ll see who catches on going forward, and whether it translates into votes this time around. John McCain had better get it together, though. PageRank 2? Come on, John. Even we’re a 4.