Barack Obama

  The President has asked Americans all across the country to come together as a nation to help fellow citizens recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. As the community steps up, so do the scammers. In the devastating wake of Sandy, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a new warning for all investors Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121108_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The year of social media just keeps on truckin’. On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term after he hit the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes. That wasn’t the only Obama-related number of significance from Tuesday night, however. Obama’s “Four More Continue Reading →

President Barack Obama was re-elected on Tuesday evening after defeating republican candidate Gov. Mitt Romney 303 to 206 and winning an estimated 50% of the popular vote. Shortly after the president’s win was secured, an image was posted from his Twitter account along with the text “Four more years.” According to a report from BuzzFeed, Continue Reading →

Barack Obama’s victory on Tuesday night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech? Turns out, a lot. While Obama hasn’t indicated that he’ll dramatically change course on Continue Reading →

The peaceful transition of power is an enduring, unique and wondrous attribute of American Democracy.  Students of history know that back in 1796, when President George Washington decided to decline running for a third term, he wrote a letter to America entitled: "The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States."  President Washington's retirement paved the way for a vicious political battle between the Federalists, who favored John Adams and the Jeffersonians who were eponymously named for their candidate. Continue Reading →

Google isn’t treating searches related to presidential candidates fairly, a new report charges. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that it commissioned a study on the way in which search results related to President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are displayed on Google. The study found that when users search for “Obama” or “Romney,” Google displays Continue Reading →

Looking at the interpretation of polls in the presidential race, you might think there are actually two distinct races: the one from the Democrats’ point of view and the one from the Republicans’ point of view. The Democrats say President Obama has a numerical lock on the Electoral College. The Republicans say Romney is well Continue Reading →

Depending on who you ask, and indeed how much you even care, Tuesday night is going to be a long one. If you buy the arguments of the prognosticators lean on the latest national polls such as this one from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News the race will go down to the wire, with Continue Reading →

The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election is shaping up to be the most digital election in the history of the country, as Mashable has documented. An infographic underlines how much social and digital media’s influence has grown from the last election in 2008 and how much campaigns are increasingly moving their operations online. In this election Continue Reading →

(Part 1 of this two-part piece can be read here.) After the second presidential debate—mere minutes after—I received a ‘robotext’ from Romney’s camp: “Romney Won the Debate!” My own assessment of the debate aside, it was mildly annoying that I’d have to pay for what I thought was a pointless text. (I would have thought Continue Reading →