Tag: MCCAIN

John McCain may have just made himself a powerful enemy. During Tuesday night's debate, when asked about whom he would choose for treasury secretary, McCain made mention of Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay. "Meg Whitman was CEO of a company which started with 12 people," McCain said, which caused Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, to balk via Twitter. "Ahem. Started with 12 people?," Omidyar ...

We can only assume the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has snatched up the domain name VoteForTheMILF.com in an effort to prove that they're more tech savvy than they've let on. When originally discovered, the URL redirected visitors to JohnMcCain.com (which just happened to display a video introduction from Palin), but clearly someone at the campaign thought it wasn't such a great idea to ...

Politics aside, we're totally cracking up that McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eaken told reporters today that his BlackBerry was "the miracle that John McCain helped create" -- dude, BlackBerrys are Canadian. [Via Wonkette, thanks to everyone who sent this in] ...

Dirty tricks used to mislead voters and keep them away from the polls, but new Web-centric attempts to disenfranchise voters are stoking fears amongst voters and activists. In the past, political trickery has relied on phone calls, fliers, and direct mailing, which are much easier to track and prosecute than the new wave of political scare tactics. Traditional calls, like the push polls in 2000 ...

It's no secret that Barack Obama has a severe technological edge over his competitor for the White House. While John McCain has been famously quoted as saying he doesn't e-mail and even more frighteningly that he is "becoming computer literate," Obama has leveraged the power of social networking and text messaging to turn himself from political newbie to front runner for the presidency. The ...

When asked by the New York times about his proficiency in surfing the Web, presidential candidate John McCain admitted to being Web 'illiterate,' and relying on his wife for 'any assistance he can get.' The interesting part about this story isn't the fact that a 71-year-old-man is unable or unwilling to use the Internet. Only 35% of senior citizens (people over 65) are online. However McCain is ...

We've been talking about this election cycle being the being the true beginning of politics in the Internet age, but if you had told us even just a few weeks ago that the first campaign sanctioned debate between the Obama and McCain camps would be held via Twitter, we would have thought you were crazy. But that is exactly the venue that has representatives from the campaigns facing off in a ...

John McCain is trying to apply the lessons learned from the X-Prize to presidential politics, and has proposed offering a substantial $300 million prize package to the company that develops a battery that leapfrogs the current technology found in hybrids like the Toyota Prius. That's $1 for every person in the country. McCain also plans to offer a $5,000 tax credit for every zero-emission vehicle ...

In what we're sure is a subtle way to try and connect younger voters, the McCain campaign has been using a chunk of music composed by Christopher Lennertz for 'Medal of Honor: European Assault' in a commercial. Lennertz is unhappy about it's use, however, as he is an Obama booster. Unfortunately for Lennertz, the rights to the music belong to the game's publisher EA, and not the composer. ...

While some say the rise of Web sites such as Google and Wikipedia are leading to a dumbing down of America, the results of a recent poll suggest all these fancy Internets are in fact enabling people to be more well-informed, especially when it comes to politics. The Pew Internet and American Life Project says that many Americans are rejecting the simple sound-byte style of modern political ...

An editorial by Paul Saffo at ABC News argues that Obama's victory over Hillary is due to his "cybergenic" nature, and that his advantage and passion of Web-based media will lead him to victory over John McCain in November. According to Saffo, Hillary's campaign was dismissive of the personal nature of the Internet and instead chose to focus on the mass-media of television. Meanwhile, Obama ...

This election cycle is becoming the year politics go super-digital. Take a quick look at any of the candidates' websites -- each one reveals a host of buttons linking to the various candidates' digital outposts on various social Web services. Each site has a blog, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel. Each one also provides tools to help supporters organize. This is not just the result ...