John McCain is on a roll. The New Hampshire Union Leader has strongly endorsed his candidacy and Fox News' Carl Cameron called this endorsement "significant" and the "buzz" on the campaign trail (watch YouTube clip here).

That's all fine and dandy for the folks that a.) Read and care about a New Hampshire Union Leader endorsement, and 2.) Watch Fox News and care about what Carl Cameron has to say. I'm not saying these things aren't important (they are), but they don't really thrill me...

What I am more interested in is what voters think about John McCain (and the rest of the field) and whether those voters will have a chance to participate in the democratic process.

That is why today I'm going to serve a helping of porridge to McCain because tonight he'll be the first Republican to participate in the MySpace/MTV Presidential Forum. You can watch it and participate online tonight.

The details as provided by Lee Brenner, Executive Producer of Political Programming & Director of IMPACT at MySpace:

The MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue with Sen. McCain is happening live on Monday, December 3rd, at 7pm EST. The one-hour event will be broadcast live on MTV, live on MySpace.com/election2008, live on mobile carriers, live on XM, and live and translated into Spanish on LaVibra.com/candidatos.

The first truly interactive, multi-media Presidential forum series continues to include unfiltered questions from young voters (students) in the audience (questions are unknown to the MySpace/MTV editorial team--only general topics are known), live IM and email questions from the online viewing audience, a user-generated (and user-generated rated/chosen) video question from myspace.com/election2008, and a first-of-its-kind, real-time online polling tool.

We've extended invitations to all of the leading Presidential candidates and are looking forward to hearing from those candidates about scheduling their Dialogues.

Good work John McCain. We'll tune in.

TechRepublican contributor James Durbin first blogged about McCain's willingness to step up to the plate in mid-November and I'm hopeful he has some thoughts to include in this discussion as someone with intimate knowledge of how this will all work out.