Politics

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print…You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We Continue Reading →

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records (for politics) while he was at it, according to the company. Extra points to Twitter, the site didn’t go down or falter once during the entire speech. “A new record political moment on Continue Reading →

Those hoping to catch the livestream of First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on YouTube or BarackObama.com can forget about it — it’s been blocked. The event’s official stream was yanked due to copyright infringement concerns, according to a message posted on YouTube: “This video contains content from WMG, SME, Associated Continue Reading →

While he was in Paris in March of 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Francis Hopkinson that scholars have aptly named, "Neither Federalist Nor Antifederalist." In it, Jefferson writes, "I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Continue Reading →

Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter. There are several ways you could look at this: 1. Romney 2012 fears that, come Thursday night—which is the last night of the RNC and when the trending topic is set to go live—the GOP nom’s campaign will Continue Reading →

At 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama surprised Internet users by popping onto Reddit–a social news site that allows users to vote for what makes the “front page”–to do an “Ask Me Anything,” in which notable people allow Reddit users to ask questions. The White House announced the event at around 4:15, and the site, Continue Reading →

President Obama has nearly 19 million Twitter followers, but 70%, or approximately 13 million of them, are fake, according to a new analysis. Mitt Romney’s Twitter account, meanwhile, has less than 900,000 followers, but only 15% of them, or about 135,000, are fakes. The numbers come from Fake Follower Check, a tool from social media Continue Reading →

Barack Obama’s re-election campaign became the first presidential campaign in history to accept money via text messages, the campaign announced Thursday. Obama supporters on most major cellular networks can now donate up to $50 each billing cycle by texting “GIVE” to 62262. The money will be charged to cellphone owners’ bills, the same way donations Continue Reading →

Microsoft wants Xbox 360 users to get involved in the upcoming elections, so in an effort to keep prospective young voters in the loop, they are teaming up with a number of outlets and gearing up to launch an “Election 2012 on Xbox LIVE” hub on the Xbox 360 dashboard. The hub is scheduled to Continue Reading →

Not one to be left out of all the buzz surrounding the upcoming US presidential election, Amazon has unveiled its Election Heat Map which it will be updating each day to show the best-selling political books by state. The map is separated into blue (liberal) and red (conservative) categories, and it lets you click on Continue Reading →