Down but not out

I decided to take a loot at John McCains campaign website for the 2010 U.S. senate election. In class we talked a lot about websites and how the internet works when it comes to political campaigns and many of the things we learned are seen in McCains new website for senate re election. On the front of his site, we see many key components which our book talks about. For instance the first thing you see when you sign on to the page is an area for your email address and zip code, this is most likely used to help get word out and look for volunteers in different areas. And who said John McCain was out of touch with the people of the U.S. there is an entire section of social networking sites in which John McCain is a part of, including facebook. who would of thunk it. The ironic part about this is that I would be willing to bet anyone that John McCain couldnt even tell you how to get to his facebook page and there is probably some twenty somthing volunteer sitting behind a computer right now updating old man McCains facebook page. Another key component of the campaign website seen in McCains and noted in the book is the ease of translating the site. There is a one click button at the top of the hom page showing us all how to see the site in Spanish. Although everyone has their jokes about McCain and he was beat up pretty bad in the Presidential campaign I think his website for senate re election is set up very nicely and he has obviously done a very good job of hiring an educated staff to run his campaign.