Barack Obama's victory and the new technologies

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Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 US elections is a fundamental change in the US way of leading, and taking decisions. As the US's first black President, Obama is clearly writing a new chapter of History. He has been a brilliant candidate in many ways, trying to adapt his campaign to his beliefs, and relying as much as possible on the American values. First of all, even though Obama obviously had a lot of advisors helping him to present the best campaign possible, he has surely been self-reliant, feeling that nobody could win the election for him, and he must be the one to win the Presidential position. As far as the question of dealing with control is concerned, Obama's campaign was actually based on a desire to conquer the largest number of states, which is in fact the principal issue of a presidential campaign. He also took control of new technologies in a better way than his challenger, John McCain. The candidate was convinced of the capacity of the new technologies to influence the democratic process. "Since I've started involving myself in the civic action, I've realized that the true change comes from below, and there is no more powerful tool for the organization fats - root than the Internet ".

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[...] So Barak Obama evolved during this campaign thanks to his modernity. While Mckain is called illiterate of the computing Obama is on all the fronts of the technological point of view: whom ca or on Facebook, on the internet or same on cellular sound (Blackberry), Barak Obama is everywhere. His (her,its) independence on the technological point of view made him winning to the prices of these elections. His personal initiatives were risky but which showed to be a winning strategy. [...]

[...] This is perfectly in agreement with the global US American point of view. - Barack Obama and the law and order issue “Play by the rules” The United States of America are known for being a highly criminal country, and where all the citizens are constantly being careful and afraid. Being an individualistic country explains in some way this way of acting, but the US Americans are still being very vigilant in their everyday's life. This is why law and order appears as a very important society issue and US value. [...]

[...] Barack Obama does not want to implement a Communist system or else he wouldn't have been elected ! but he is by some means trying to set up a sort of communicating society, based on interaction between all the individuals, not being rank on their money or power On the other hand, Obama is agreeing with the famous idea of “American Dream” stating that anyone can be anything, can become whatever he/she dreams of being. But in reality some people are facing more difficulty than others he is obviously talking about the handicap that African Americans have to deal with, I believe. [...]

[...] The Web is only the link between these persons. On this point, the official site of Barack Obama is much better than the others: it allows people to communicate, and not only in a hierarchic manner but also downwards. The Obama's plan - Guarantee an opened internet and a plurality of the media: protect the internet neutrality, facilitate the emergence of the new media, limit the concentration of the media, protect the children, and protect privacy by increasing the means of the regulation authorities. [...]

[...] And in June, while Obama ended winner of the primary elections, the campaign team suggested his supporters to organize meetings at their houses, called "Unite for Changes About 4000 took place through the country. The Web experts and the politicians observe with interest the successes of Obama thanks to the new technologies. During the recent conference” Personal Democracy Forum”, on June 24th of this year, Peter Daou and Zephyr Teachout, respectively guiding of Internet campaign for Hillary Clinton (for the primary of the Democrats) and of Howard Dean ( Democratic candidate for the presidential election campaign of 2004), were amazed and impressed by the achievements of Barack Obama, thanks to his website. [...]