Group One Final Project Draft

Historical Question: How have presidential campaigns used the internet to connect with voters?

Our site is very simple, allowing for a user-friendly interface.

Home page at the top with 4 categories for 4 elections (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) and each member will have their own table to show our data.

It will be very much like the simple design below, which we borrowed from Website Storyboarding examples:

The website will most likely be a WordPress template, hosted by Blogs@Baruch. This is still being discussed amongst the group.

The data we will be mapping is how each presidential budget changed into order to accomendate the tools, pages and staff for each of the campaign’s web-reach.

Though we’re hitting a bit of a wall on how to find how the budgets were allocated in 2000 and 2004, there are many sources for 2012 including information by SEO on how much was spent, and shared for both Romney and Obama:

According to SEO, Romney spent $1.32 “per click” while Obama spent $1.15 “per click” during their 2012 election campaigns.