By cwnewser
1- Social Network
-Since 2008, the candidates use the variety of the social website because it’s easy to
communicate with their electors . Republican and Democratic campaigns fought with social site like Facebook and Twitter but they still use TV or newspapers .
It’s not enough for the presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to kiss babies, shake hands and lunch at small-town diners to win over voters. In 2012, they also need to get close to citizens online. They use the social Web to get its message and appeal to voters.
Social Web played an important rôle in the 2008 election but now usage are multiplied by 10, because they can spoil quickly the information.
Example of type of Web Site :
-Facebook : Facebook, the best social sites, is still one of the most influential social media tools for politicians, entertainers, celebrities and other people. Getting a user to share, comment and like.
-Twitter : they can debate for their opinion and they influence other people who don’t have any opinion.
-Instagram: Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing application, has more than 100 million registered users who upload pictures from moments their everyday lives . This social web is very good because this site is administrator by users and not by Obama or Romney .
-Youtube : Both campaigns have active YouTube channels, where they have posted a lot of video advertisements where there is A melting pot of TV show or debate, or video of their everyday lives.
-Tumblr, Pinterest , Spotify , …
2- Other medias
In th U.S the media are a huge influence on the presidential campaign. There are a lot of videos for people to vote with Well-Know people ( since 2008 for Obama ) found with internet and also spoil at the TV during the campaign because nowadays the newspaper with less influence than TV and the internet.
In 2008 celebrities made an advertisement for people to understand that vote is important , they say that if you don’t care about economy, education,wars.. you haven’t to vote but if you care a bit about the country you have to make something and go to the polls !
This year there is a new video to incite young people to vote they say that you can make the difference, you have to be strong because you matter the country needs your vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-B6qiPMGII
Barack Obama has his own website where you can see the different issues of the campaign, video to vote for Obama and you can donate to the campaign, there are some picture of Barack Obama with his wife…
There is also videos against Mitt Romney :