There is a story that the mainstream news media is missing, and it’s this fascinating, engaging and sometimes animated (translation: nasty) election conversation happening on Twitter.

I just voted today in the North Carolina primary, and right now I am doing double duty at midnight posting on Twitter and watching CNN. In one evening on Twitter, I’ve seen heated debates, jabs at Hillary Clinton, cheers for Barack Obama, and seen national newscasters be the butt of jokes.

In fact, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both on Twitter, as well as any assorted number of Twitter accounts with a candidate’s name in them. Obama has an amazing number of followers (almost 30,000, reputed to be the most followed member on Twitter).

So you can follow the campaign in the papers, or you can follow this cool online conversation about the campaign. It’s pretty telling.