Huckabee and Clinton were the clear super heroes on Super Tuesday in Tennessee.

Lee students voiced their opinions in the campus question poll at leeclarion.com and Republican presidential hopeful Huckabee was the clear winner in the entire race with 39 percent of the votes.

In fact, Huckabee won Bradley County with 51 percent of Republican votes and 5,887 ballots cast.

With such a strong support base in Cleveland it’s no surprise that Huckabee took the state of Tennessee as well with 34 percent of the primary vote February 5.

However Huckabee had a tougher race across the state, narrowly nudging out John McCain (32 percent) and also former contender Mitt Romney (24 percent).

Ron Paul, who came in second in the Lee Clarion’s poll at 22 percent, came in fourth in the state at 6 percent.

Democrats declared Tennessee for Hillary Clinton with a wide lead of 54 percent, compared to Barrack Obama’s 41 percent, although Lee voters favored Obama, giving him a 10 percent lead over Clinton in the online poll.

Clinton won Bradley County with 67 percent of the Democratic vote.

Polls have shown youth to be more actively mobilized during the 2008 election than ever previously expected, and the cause is likely due to online efforts.

Declare Yourself, a youth voting initiative which has already registered more than 250,000 voters for the 2008 campaign, prominently features links to social networks such as Facebook and MySpace on its page.

These networks have increasingly become hubs of youth political activity, each producing Web sites intended to involve youth in the political process.

Besides hosting pages for the presidential hopefuls, Facebook also introduced an application that gives users access to up-to-date political news, polls and video.

The application, created with ABC News, also allows users to participate in debate groups during televised presidential debates.

More than one million Facebook users have added the application to their profile, and more than 300,000 have participated in at least one debate group, according to a news release from Facebook.

Several user-initiated Facebook groups have been started for each candidate, the largest being “One Million Strong For Obama,” with more than 445,000 members.

Lee students have also taken initiative to bring political candidates votes online. Lee’s Facebook network boasts four groups supporting candidates: Lee Students for Mitt Romney, created by freshman Cameron Pruette; Students for Barack Obama (Lee Chapter), created by junior Melissa Franklin; Lee Students for Ron Paul, created by junior Zach Skaggs; and Lee students for Mike Huckabee, created by freshman Wes Kerrick.

The groups have a total of four, four, 48 and 64 members respectively. According to Facebook’s Lee network statistics, 36 percent of students consider themselves conservative, 15 percent moderate, 5 percent other and 4 percent liberal.

MySpace launched MySpace Impact, a Web site featuring links to candidates’ profiles, as well as polling and registration information. It also includes featured blog posts from its users.

Youth have also taken to independent Web sites to organize around their favorite candidates. The Web site “Obama Youth,” produces pro-Obama content and rallies Obama supporters with community service activities and design contests. The founders, Sarah and Joshua Ramirez, are not even old enough to vote.

“We still have the ability to make a difference, spread the word and shape Obama’s platform,” says the Web site’s front page.

Mike Huckabee has tapped into youth culture with Alex and Brett Harris, twin 19-year-olds who founded the popular Christian Web site, The Rebelution. The Harris brothers started Huck’s Army, which uses its Web site to organize grassroots efforts for Huckabee’s campaign.

More than 70 percent of voters under 30 say they are “interested” in the 2008 campaign, according to data from the Kennedy School of Government’s Vanishing Voter polls — up from 42 percent at the same time in 2004.

In a January Time magazine poll of voters under 30, 53 percent found Mr. Obama to be an “inspirational” candidate. Only 20 percent considered Mitt Romney inspirational.

“Young people are a crucial part of the electorate for any candidate to win this year,” said Kat Barr at a forum entitled Super Tuesday and the Youth Vote. “If they want to win in November, they need to reach out to young people.” The forum was held at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Barr is Deputy Political Director of Rock the Vote, a nonprofit organization working to increase young voter turnout.

Michael Farr, of the Washington Times, contributed to this report.