Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton announced today that she'll embark on a campaign to become the first female president of the United States. And do you know what? Her supporters made her a Drupal campaign website already. Yay!
Hillary Clinton using Drupal
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After Howard Dean, it seems that Drupal is having a profound influence on US politics. There's also the Draft Obama website that runs on Drupal: http://www.draftobama.org. And on a hunch, I went a checked one of the other candidates and lo and behold Drupal: http://kucinich.us. Three out of three. Not bad. Also looked at some of the Republican candidates but no Drupal there.
Obama's official site is barakobama.com, and does not run Drupal.
What does Obama's site run instead?
Not sure what is he using, but isn't Drupal. He is using Google Analytics for stats.
hi your answer is correct but i dont know how much thgat is correct.....
A correction ... from the footer:
This site is not paid for or authorized by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Paid for by the Hillary Clinton for President Committee.
Her official site is http://hillaryclinton.com ... To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the difference is, except that one is running Drupal and the other takes forever for pages to load.
You're right. Not sure how I missed that but thanks for the correction, mediagirl. I've updated my original post.
I agree with you, the truth begins from that point.
Shouldn't the title be something more like "Hillary Clinton's supporters use Drupal"?
Or were you dodging bullets with her in Bosnia too? :)
Chris Dodd also runs for presidency, and his official website is running on Drupal 5. See https://www.developmentseed.org/blog/preesidential_drupal_5
I'm not quite sure what the difference is, except that one
And both the Clinton site and Draftobama are making good use of CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org) to drive newsletters sign ups and collecting CRM data on registration.
Hopefully they will also find use for the online contributions and email marketing capabilities.
As I gear myself to launch a new site powered by Drupal (with the support of the friends over at Bryght, in Vancouver), I was excited to see the signs of Drupal permeating into US Politics.
I have a dream of a day when we will have a wider use of Open Source platforms in our government. It will be a happy day.
Interesting that, as well as Drupal sites, all of the main runners are now appearing almost non-stop on the front page of [email protected] as well!
Politics goes truly viral,
Steve
Incredible, look at Belgian political parties. Almost all of them used Drupal. It would be worth making a list! Remarkably, when Drupal is not used almost always another open source program is used. These elections must cost a lot...
There was an article on techcrunch that explained what Barack Obama is using for his social networking, and it isn't Drupal like Khalid says... but something by Blue State Digital.
In the past couple months, I've noticed several other candidates employing their own look alike versions. I saw another article that showed what servers the dems and re GOP are running, and it was a pretty fascinating article that I can't remember exactly where it was, but basically, the republicans are VERY heavily using windows servers while democrats are almost solely using linux.
Coincidence? It brings up a few interesting thoughts at least.
I think Drupal is getting more and more influence in the social activity.
I used to create websites with Joomla but I will try Drupal, nice to see that Hillary Clinton is using it, has to be quite a good content management system to handle her campaign with Drupal.
Locke.
Content management
Obama's website looks better anyway. I agree, drupal has many advantages over joomla.
I think Obama website is the best website of any candidate so far..
A lot of people use Drupal, that's is why Hillary used it for her campaign.