Politics

Campaign Design Review: McCain for President

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Part 4 of my possibly tiresome campaign site review series finds us staring at the grim, unblinking visage of John McCain! The (mostly) black and white maverick of the campaign design world sure has its share of detractors....

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Edwards, Obama on Twitter

In a post last week I suggested that campaigns start using Twitter to update activists on their activities. 

Lynne Johnson over at TechPresident reports that John Edwards and Barack Obama appear to have done just that and created accounts. 

Obama hasn't posted at all and Edwards has posted only four times since January 7. ...

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Why Did Huckabee’s Website Go Down?

Update: The site is back up now – www.explorehuckabee.com.  It was down for at least an hour.

I see this post over on Tech President pointing me to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s Presidential Exploratory Committee website.  Based on that post and my own research the site URL is www.explorehuckabee.com. ...

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Donate to Candidates Through Search

We had a story appear on the Digg homepage the other day and in the comments someone pointed to a site I hadn't seen before: Presidential Quest.  

Basically Presidential Quest has created search sites for every single Presidential candidate.  Users then search the web from the site of their chosen candidate and all the ad revenue that is generated from the searching is donated to their chosen candidate. ...

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Early Presidential Campaigning: 3 Reasons Why it’s a Bad Idea

As we all know, the 2008 presidential campaigns are getting swamped with coverage lately.  It is beginning to seem slightly ridiculous to me the amount of media attention that these potential candidates are getting.  Shouldn't the country still be paying attention to who is currently in office?  What's that guy's name…..Bush or something? ...

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