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Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney used social media, in particular Facebook, to try to rally their crowds of supporters to the polls and lure independents to their camp. But now that the election is over, those Facebook "Likes" are turning out to be some pretty fickle declarations of faith, at least in the case of Romney.
Wikipedia has put a silver padlock icon on the top right hand side of their entries. This means that anonymous users cannot make editorial changes to content relating to the politicians. The...
Ann Romney, wife of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressed the Republican National Convention and talked life, challenges, and her husband. "I read somewhere that Mitt and...
The first American presidential debate is taking place tonight, pitting President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney against each other to earn voters’ trust and approval. To honor the occasion, we are highlighting a few crowdsourcing initiatives tied to the campaign.
Czech Republic-based Avast’s goal is not partisan. They desire to use the power of Big Data to attempt to crowdsource an election prediction from their 11 million USA-based Avast users. According...
President Obama may have seemed to be half-asleep in his first presidential debate performance with Mitt Romney in Denver, but his supporters were wide awake on Facebook and Twitter, according to data from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Prediction markets are becoming more popular, with a number of sites crowdsourcing bets on tomorrow's U.S. presidential election that pits incumbent Barack Obama against challenger Mitt Romney. We examine some of the trends and attempt to explain why one candidate has a significant lead over the other.
The following candidates are tapping the crowd to ensure thаt Iowa votes their way: - Mitt Romney іѕ using Storify tο share іn rank іn thіѕ area campaign stops аnd post behind-thе-scenes...
While the site mostly contains political leaders for now, it could ultimately include anyone with a public role in the community, Lowry said. "You could rate your local softball coach, or...
The latest incident involves ABC News soliciting questionson Facebook about the presidential campaign on their Facebook page. Some people who are still upset about the story involving Mitt Romney...
Campaigns are getting increasingly sophisticated in how they tailor their messages to individuals based on such obvious characteristics as age, race, sex and party identification but also on more...
Josh Light, has said the company’s chief marketing officer, Sterling Morris, is a talented filmmaker and they plan to make a documentary of their travels, which will be for sale. It can be...
Here's how John Cook summed things up on Gawker: Mitt Romney's $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under...
Using “crowdsourcing” technology, FreedomWorks sponsored an exercise that allowed 1.2 million participants to narrow from 60 to 12 the number of issues on a “Freedom Platform” and sent Bell and 11...
Google Moderator has been crowdsourcing questions to ask the presidential candidates, as well as asking for users to vote and comment on their favorite submissions, with the goal of having the candidates answer the crowd. It turns out, CNN will not actually be using the questions in the second presidential debate.
President Obama wants to help the average American. Mitt Romney says the way to do that is by nurturing businesses. They can both agree that https://BusinessLeads.com provides a needed stimulus to...
Lindsey Wilson student Kendall Sewell, of Somerset, said the project was also an example of crowdsourcing. “When you focused on just one or two states instead of nine or 19, you didn’t worry as...
The president’s tax plan would reward some sectors, such as manufacturers and clean energy companies, which would continue to receive targeted tax breaks. But it would penalize other sectors, such...
Justin Elliot, reporter for ProPublica, talks with Rachel Maddow about ProPublica's crowdsourcing project to scan information about local TV station political ad buys to publish on the...
Rally works almost as if a content management system and PayPal had a baby, and raised that baby to love campaigns and nonprofits and other worthy things that (arguably) need donations. It helps...
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