Dartmouth students plan online debate poll

Dartmouth College students will provide some immediate feedback about how the Democratic presidential contenders perform in tonight's much-anticipated debate on campus.

More than 450 students have registered to vote in online polls on an independent website, open-vote.com, created by two graduate students.

"Students deserve to have their voice heard, but traditional polling relies on home phones and leaves college students out entirely," one of the founders, Colin Van Ostern, said in a statement. "It is amazing that with all the new technology and increased internet access in recent years, up until now there still has been no good way to see what a college campus thinks."

Students will be able to say who they believe won the debate, and also which candidate they plan to support in both the Democratic and Republican primaries.

With Hillary Clinton extending her lead in the latest New Hampshire poll, the buzz in the blogosphere today is that Barack Obama and John Edwards might more aggressively go after her in the two-hour face-off, which will be aired live on MSNBC, NECN, and New Hampshire Public Radio starting at 9 p.m.