Barack Obama Gets 4 More Years, Defeats Romney in the Presidential Race

Obama President 2012

Despite Romney’s early lead in the race to the White House, Barack Obama emerged as the final victor, securing almost a million popular votes and ninety-seven electoral votes ahead of his opponent. In his victory speech in Chicago on Wednesday morning, the re-elected president voiced his thanks to the voters as well as his campaign [...]

Written on 07 Nov 2012 by Aimee

2012 US Elections Results

United States Presidential Election

Twitter : #ElectionDay2012. Live Stream : Tweets concernant “#ElectionDay2012″ You can follow US ELECTIONS Results LIVE on Google : google.com/elections/ed/us/results. You can also just enter “us election results” in Google.com and the search engine shows you directly the numbers in Serps : Youtube Live Video : google.com/elections/ed/us/live USA Today 2012 Elections Results : usatoday.com/election-2012/results/ CNN Election Center [...]

Written on 06 Nov 2012 by Vincent Abry
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Obama-Romney : who has the fastest website?

Romney Obama

Well, it seems it’s Mitt Romney who has the fastest site… almost 2x faster than Barack Obama’s website : [via]

Written on 15 Oct 2012 by Vincent Abry

Twitter’s New Political Index Captures the Public Opinion

Twitter is now harnessing the voices of its millions of users to assess political opinions in America. The Twitter Political Index, or ‘Twindex,’ launched in August 2012 and has been keeping a steady eye on a number of hot-button issues since. The results are surprisingly accurate and offer a direct look into the minds of [...]

Written on 28 Aug 2012 by Vincent Abry

Socialist Hollande wins French election [animation]

By Taiwan-based studio Next Media Animation (NMA), here is an illustration of Francois Hollande winning the french election. “Francois Hollande was elected president of France in the 2012 French presidential election Sunday, becoming France’s first Socialist president in 17 years. Hollande defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on promises to reassess austerity deals aimed at solving Europe’s [...]

Written on 08 May 2012 by Vincent Abry

France Welcomes Socialist Francois Hollande as President

Francois Hollande

For someone with no experience in national governance, Francois Hollande’s win in the French presidential elections on May 6, 2012 is nothing short of remarkable. The first Socialist to have earned the Presidential title since Francois Mitterrand (1988), Hollande ousted Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.63%. Supporters of Hollande celebrated over at the Place de la [...]

Written on 07 May 2012 by Aimee

France Elections Results 2012 : Hollande 28%, Sarkozy 25%

Francois Hollande

Here are the results of the first round of the 2012 Presidential: (estimated) -Francois Hollande: 28.40% (socialist candidate) -Nicolas Sarkozy: 25.50% (actual French President) Only the two highest scores are kept (except if one candidate has more than 50%, he would be President in 1 round only). Hollande and Sarkozy will fight for 2nd round [...]

Written on 22 April 2012 by Vincent Abry

French elections results : up to a $100,000 fine

2012 French candidates

The law in France prohibit the publication of results, estimates or surveys of presidential elections before the close of all polling places at 8:00 pm (2:00 pm eastern time). “Until 8 p.m. Sunday, election day, when the last polling places close in the first round of voting, the country’s 10 presidential candidates may not give [...]

Written on 22 April 2012 by Vincent Abry
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SOPA and PIPA are dead for now : Internet Freedom first win ?

Lamar Smith

SOPA Bill won’t be voted like this. Lamar Smith will pull the bill until there is a better solution. “I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy, Smith (R-Texas) said. It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on [...]

Written on 22 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry

2012 US Elections on Facebook [infographic]

Facebook 2012 Elections

United States Presidential Elections will be held on 6 November 2012. But for now who is the first candidate in the race to the White House according to their number of fans on Facebook ? Barack Obama has 24 million fans, Mitt Rommey 1,26 million, Ron Paul 672 000 fans, Michele Bachman 460 000, Newt [...]

Written on 03 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry

2012 US Elections : Google unveils a dedicated website

Google Plus elections US 2012

2012 US Elections will be held on November 6 2012 but Google is not late : the company already launched a dedicated website to follow the news of the candidates, democrats and republicans. A “Trends” section allows to see the popularity of the candidates according to State and day/week/month. A “Issues” Section shows the last [...]

Written on 02 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry
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Barack Obama is on Google +

Barack Obama Google +

U.S. President Barack Obama just landed on Google + with a verified profile page for his future presidential campaign in 2012. Yes it is indeed a page with his name + first name, and not a personal account. His G+ Page has already 4637 +1s after 1 day online. (note that Barack does not display [...]

Written on 24 Nov 2011 by Vincent Abry
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Elysee 2.0: A brand new website Elysee.fr

Elysee France

The Elysée, with the help of the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been able to get itself a brand new elegant website. The latter is so gorgeous that many would say that it has been widely inspired from the White House’s website. The fact is that both website looks alike. The previous videos [...]

Written on 07 April 2010 by Rose