Monday, November 01, 2004
US Election 2004
Hello good morning and welcome to Cybersurf, your weekly window where the web matters. I am your cyberhost with the most – Steven Lang – and if you didn’t know already that the biggest single online event of the year is about to climax tomorrow – Yes, it’s election time in the United States.
In the next two minutes or so I am going to read out some web addresses - but do not fear if you can’t get them all done, I will put up the addresses at cybersurf.blogspot.com
Not suprisingly election related material is absolutely swamping the ‘Net as we speak. If you want to keep up with what is going on, but don’t want to wade through a huge amount of garbage – a good place to start would be the campaign sites of the two leading contenders.
The incumbent has a re-election site at www.georgewbush.com/ - this is the official site, but in the last few days it has been hard to get on to – too much traffic – or maybe there has been a hacker at work. If you want to find out more about Dubya – you could go directly to the Whitehouse site – and the address is – be careful here – whitehouse.gov – if you make a mistake and go to whitehouse.com – you will be shocked and horrified by the pornography; if you go to whitehouse.org you will be amused and entertained by the satire – so make sure you type in whitehouse dot gov –
Get it, got it – good.
The Republican leader also has a sophisticated on line store which you can find at http://www.georgewbushstore.com and where you can by sweaters, banners and George W golf balls.
The main contender has a campaign site at johnkerry.com he has some interesting sub sites – one for African Americans, one for pacific islanders and even one for Hispanics called unidos con Kerry and another whole section in Spanish called oportunidades.
By the way you can also buy Kerry jackets, banners and buttons at www.kerrygear.com.
If you are looking for a more balanced overview of the election candidates. The place to go is http://www.us-election.org/ - this is a serious site and also gives you some information on the less well known candidates – yes, did you know that there are 14 presidential candidates altogether – from the Green party to the Libertarian party to the Workers World Party.
Open Secrets dot org can be found at http://www.opensecrets.org/ and this site gives you a notion of the story behind the elections and how much it really costs – Four Billion US dollars so far.
The State department has a special section at http://usinfo.state.gov that tells you all about how the election actually works. You know of course that its not a direct election – voters select representatives for an electoral college. And the electoral colleage chooses the President
And that wraps up our US election edition of cybersurf. If you missed any of the addresses that I mentioned – don’t stress, just type in www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time - cybersurf.blogspot dot com and you will find this entire script together with the all the web addresses just waiting for you to click on them.
Thanks for listening and till next week . . . . keeeeep on surfing.
In the next two minutes or so I am going to read out some web addresses - but do not fear if you can’t get them all done, I will put up the addresses at cybersurf.blogspot.com
Not suprisingly election related material is absolutely swamping the ‘Net as we speak. If you want to keep up with what is going on, but don’t want to wade through a huge amount of garbage – a good place to start would be the campaign sites of the two leading contenders.
The incumbent has a re-election site at www.georgewbush.com/ - this is the official site, but in the last few days it has been hard to get on to – too much traffic – or maybe there has been a hacker at work. If you want to find out more about Dubya – you could go directly to the Whitehouse site – and the address is – be careful here – whitehouse.gov – if you make a mistake and go to whitehouse.com – you will be shocked and horrified by the pornography; if you go to whitehouse.org you will be amused and entertained by the satire – so make sure you type in whitehouse dot gov –
Get it, got it – good.
The Republican leader also has a sophisticated on line store which you can find at http://www.georgewbushstore.com and where you can by sweaters, banners and George W golf balls.
The main contender has a campaign site at johnkerry.com he has some interesting sub sites – one for African Americans, one for pacific islanders and even one for Hispanics called unidos con Kerry and another whole section in Spanish called oportunidades.
By the way you can also buy Kerry jackets, banners and buttons at www.kerrygear.com.
If you are looking for a more balanced overview of the election candidates. The place to go is http://www.us-election.org/ - this is a serious site and also gives you some information on the less well known candidates – yes, did you know that there are 14 presidential candidates altogether – from the Green party to the Libertarian party to the Workers World Party.
Open Secrets dot org can be found at http://www.opensecrets.org/ and this site gives you a notion of the story behind the elections and how much it really costs – Four Billion US dollars so far.
The State department has a special section at http://usinfo.state.gov that tells you all about how the election actually works. You know of course that its not a direct election – voters select representatives for an electoral college. And the electoral colleage chooses the President
And that wraps up our US election edition of cybersurf. If you missed any of the addresses that I mentioned – don’t stress, just type in www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time - cybersurf.blogspot dot com and you will find this entire script together with the all the web addresses just waiting for you to click on them.
Thanks for listening and till next week . . . . keeeeep on surfing.
