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Comedian Jon Stewart has more clout in America than President Barack Obama. That's the view of voters on an online men's magazine who picked the Daily Show host as the most "influential man of the year" in the US.

Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account.