Tag: ELECTIONS2008

Twitter has proven its usefulness before, expanding the classroom, reporting on earthquakes and protests in China, and helping one journalism student get out of a Egyptian jail. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Twitter yesterday continued to prove that it's good for more than just sharing your random thoughts when at least one voter managed to get help at the polls from the Election ...

Regardless of your political affiliation, there's no denying the historic nature of today's presidential race. Turnout for the U.S. election is expected to reach record numbers. So how do you keep up with the election and gather relevant information without succumbing to the noise and theatrics of the 24-hour-cable news channels? Well, the Internet (and NPR) are here to help offer you more ...

Our sister site, Download Squad (plug, plug), is all over this political stuff -- much like us. One of the greatest pastimes of a political junkie is poll watching, and Download Squad has compiled a list of the best outlets to track the endless number of state and national polls in the presidential election. Our two favorites are FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics (RCP). Both ...

Back in 2004, recent college graduate Guru Raj signed up for the then fledgling Gmail service and, on a whim, chose the name of then fledgling Illinois senator Barack Obama as his e-mail address. He typed in barackobama@gmail.com and registered it as a bit of a joke, and has used it as his personal e-mail. But ever since then, as Gmail has grown in popularity, so too has the popularity of that ...

Being president of the United States certainly takes its toll on the body -- just look at the before and after photos of our current president. In 2000, George Bush was a young, energetic looking CEO type, with more pepper than salt in his hair, whereas now he just looks tired and haggard. PopPhoto took it upon itself to find out what four years of the presidency would do to the top three ...