It’s conference submission season around our department, so I am very sensitive to word counts. I noticed during the primary that Obama’s website featured lengthy policy documents in PDF format, whereas McCain and Clinton had much skimpier policy positions on their respective sites. The goal of this study was to see if there were actual [...]
Category Archives: Politics
7 Jun 2008
Old Politicians never die
;they only get forwarded…
I was curious about what happens to old political websites when the candidate has not been running for several years. All of the 2008 candidates still have active sites because it’s too soon, but what of the 2004 candidates?
www.howarddean.com forwards to the wikipedia page about Howard Dean. Much easier than maintaining [...]