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Like every other brand seemingly desperate to court the dressing-up-as-animals-to-have-sex market, the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns have purchased lots in Second Life. The virtual world's few active users aren't bothering to visit. Which is probably a blessing, because the best chance for the projects to gain publicity is for griefers to show up with pooping cats and flying penises.Scratch that last one: Even the winged-phallus contingent has given up on Second Life and moved its penile protestations back into the real world. Internet politics has yet to prove it can reliably turn up voters willing to put on pants and leave the house to vote — the Second Lifer group on Barack Obama's social network has made all of 6,652 calls and raised $19,355.66.