A 21st Century Candidate

Barack Obama ran a very successful campaign for the Presidency (obviously!), part of that campaign was his utilisation of a whole host of modern communication techniques.  This ranged from having his own Flickr account giving a behind the scenes look to his campaign, to the effective use of YouTube – on election day alone the [...]

He Did it!!!!

So its nearly 5am in the Uk and I’m about to call it a night knowing that not only is Barack Obama the President Elect, but that he’s won in a big way, bigger than I dared hope for.

My prediction for the electoral college was 330 which frankly I thought was overly-optimistic yet he already [...]

Baking for Barack

In preparation for an election night party i’m going to, I made these Obama cupcakes today.  When I say made, I really mean bought the cakes and then put the icing on top  I really don’t have the time to be baking from scratch.

Obama Rally in London

So I promised the next few days would see quite a few election posts and here’s the first.  A rally was organised in Parliament Square today to show support for Obama.

Somewhere between 75-100 Obama-supporting American’s turned up, despite the awful weather.  It was a great atmosphere, and the closest thing to a real Obama rally [...]

Another Election Video

I was going to try and limit the number of videos I linked to up to November 4th, but I just couldn’t resist posting this song I saw today on YouTube.  It’s both clever and funny!

The next four days will be dominated by the election, and it will be no different [...]