Number Theory: A Postmortem
The recent Presidential election strategy of Senator Barack Obama set precedents with its contestation of states normally associated with strong conservative values. One of those states was North Dakota, in which the Obama campaign opened several offices and ran advertising for the first time in recent political history. This, on top of several polls, created […]
Modern Election Politics and the Brave New World
To assess the viability of the Internet as a means of political socialization and explore the reasons why early optimism failed to come to fruition, we must first assess the political Internet’s history, its current status, the relationship that develops between it and the user and the reasons for the alienation which haunts American politics.