On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was re-elected, which means, of course, that Mitt Romney lost. But if Romney had won, the president-elect would have needed a website. It makes sense that his staffers would have prepared one. But if the fool who accidentally published it wasn’t already out of a job, well, he should be fired. More »
We all know that Air Force One transports the President around but what about the presidential candidate? Well for Mitt Romney, he used an airplane from a small airplane company in Michigan who will get it back now and have to “de-Romneyize” it: strip the logos, change the seats and clean it up. More »
The election is tomorrow. Go vote. But be sure you’re informed first. Politifact’s Settle It app is one way to do that. More »
If you want to know the Internet’s temperature on Obama and Romney in the race to become the next President, just check out this snazzy 2012 Election Mood Meter tool. It smartly calculates and analyzes real-time tweets to figure out which direction each candidate is trending. More »
Web video sites and civilized discourse have never been particularly compatible concepts, but that’s not stopping YouTube from giving it a shot. Roughly a month ahead of the next US presidential election, YouTube be the host to the first of three presidential debates. You can tune into the first tonight at 9PM ET via the site’s Elections Hub, courtesy of the folks at ABC news. Further debates can be streamed on the site on the 11th and 22nd at the same time, with then Vice Presidents getting their moment in the web video spotlight on the 11th. Click on the source link to tune in, but stay away from the comments if you’re interested in retaining any faith in the political process, and or humankind.
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In what is by all accounts a pathetic bid for social currency, Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter. More »
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s election year in the US of A. And while we already have a slight idea of which political party your beloved neighbors prefer, why not have an all-inclusive video hub to keep you updated with the latest action taking place on the road toward America’s historical White House. Here’s where YouTube comes in. The Google-owned service announced earlier today the creation of its Elections Hub, which it’s dubbing as the “one-stop channel for key political moments” happening now and all the way until the final US election day on the 6th of November. Naturally, the social vid giant’s teamed up with some of the biggest outfits around to bring live and on-demand content to the Elections 2012 channel, including ABC News, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and, for the spanish-speaking crowd, Univision. Regardless of who’s landing your worthy, priceless vote, this should be great corner of the internet to keep you in the loop during this year’s Stateside political battle.
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YouTube’s Elections Hub is a one-stop channel for the latest US political happenings originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Oh, Mitt. This feels almost too easy. First you launched that self-promoting iPhone app that misspelled America. AMERICA! The country you’re trying to convince us to let you run. I can understand a typo—but good god, double-check the important shit, man. More »
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