John Edwards Is the Prize

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards announced a new "Demand and Be Heard" competition hoping to bring more of his supporters to the website Eventful.com.

As the News Desk reported last month, Eventful.com allows users to request performers and politicians to appear in their hometowns. Rep. Ron Paul, who remains the most popular Republican presidential candidate on the site, was the first to respond to users and made an extra stop in Los Angeles.

Edwards is the first candidate to sponsor a competition in which he promises to appear in the city where he is most in demand. In a YouTube video he posted advertising the contest, Edwards promised to answer "at least 10 questions" from those who request him.

Today the residents of Los Angeles are in the lead to see the former senator from North Carolina. Though Edwards remains behind Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, his popularity on the site has slowly risen since mid-April, and now he has been requested by 3,249 users, according to a chart produced by TechPresident.com, a site devoted to monitoring presidential candidates' online campaigns.

-- Nikki Schwab