Google News now offering US elections module

You can tell that Christmas is over and that the US primary process is now in full-force. If you go to Google News today, you’ll be asked if you want to install a news module devoted to the upcoming presidential primaries and subsequent national election.

Although when I accepted it and tweaked the settings to show me the maximum 9 stories, it only showed 3 stories. So I am wondering if there is a bug in there someplace?

What with the YouTube debates and now Google News pushing election modules at you, Google seems to be investing a lot of time and energy in the 2008 political process. They’ve even had the candidates over at the Googleplex fielding questions.

I wonder how effective and influential Google will end up being in this election and in subsequent future elections?