I know that Barack Obama and Ron Paul were very popular on Digg during the last electoral cycle, but the thing about that, you know… it was the last cycle:

And what’s this, just one story in the category right now? C’mon, Digg. You can do better than this.
And I don’t care where you go with it — 2012 presidential election? 2010 congressional midterms? 2009 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial campaigns? — but you’ve got to start living in the now.