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In its first two and a half days online, Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech (including this version) has been viewed 2.7 million times.

"Man in the Arena" is the current featured video on McCain's YouTube channel. It is a truly bizarre clip...sort of reminds me of Syd Barrett and 2001...except I liked Syd Barrett and 2001.

By contrast, John McCain's entire YouTube channel has delivered just 2.5 million videos -- since the beginning of his campaign, more than one year ago. It's not like he hasn't tried -- he's got 172 videos on his channel, including the truly bizarre one embedded on this page.

Another contrast: the original Jeremiah Wright video from FOX News has been played 590,000 times -- and it's been up a week longer. During the time that Obama's speech generated 2.7 million views, Wright's clip generated less than 100,000.

Obama's speech has been seen about as many times as the five most viewed videos on Hillary Clinton's channel -- combined. Most of those clips have been up for more than a month.

Obama's speech receives a 4 star rating -- Clinton's most-watched clip, the 3am ad, received just 1 star.

The Democratic Party has never in my lifetime had a presidential candidate communicating directly to so many people, pushing the media aside.

It's what so many of us have been talking about for years. Well, we've finally got it -- and the superdelegates would be absolutely crazy to throw it away.

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