Internet!

Ahh, the internet, the invention in 1969 that has evolved though different mediums like html coding to which we know it today; but through all this what effect does it have on the presidential elections. Very little? Not really, there is more to it than that!

            First off, every candidate that is in the campaign for president has their own website. Both Barack Obama and John McCain! Obama has BarackObama.com, and McCain has JohnMcCain.com. When you go to any site, it will automatically relocate you to the donation page where it will ask you for your name, number, and stuff and the donation amount. This is their little method to remind followers to keep helping them throughout their campaign. This way we actually have presidential candidates that are able to travel around the US with parties and debates too. Having a campaign is not a free-paid trip from the government. Also on their website, they give their followers their views and what they will try to accomplish in their role as president.

            That is just the beginning. With every debate that goes on, there are always people that want to watch it but either can’t watch it at that time, or want to re-watch it. So, sites like www.youTube.com (a video posting cite) where other users post the video so other people can watch along with other events that may be going on, including records that may not have been seen on TV, like unofficial interviews and mess-ups. Along with videos there are transcripts of the debates at http://www.debates.org/.

            But that’s not all! If you noticed after the debates, the news covered the debate and released debriefings of the debate. Those debriefings, as well as other videos are posted on their website where other people can see, with an advertisement at the beginning of every video paying for this free tool. Also, if you listen to the debriefings after the debate, they mention that there are polls on their website in which people like you can vote on. These polls are recorded and released for another debriefing for another story.

            Along with that, there are still more! There are actually a lot more. But this is the last one that I will talk about. Along with all the above that there are. There are public editable domains in which can shape the way we look at the candidates. The websites are such like “Blogspot/Blogger”, “Wikipedia”, “My Space”, and others like that give the more everyday person prospective into it; which may as well be not as accurate as the news articles, but may be easier to understand for some people.

            Through all this technology, it seems as though new improvements are coming out each election that are helping Americans (as well as some other people as well) keep along with the presidential campaigns. If this is good or not, that up to you.