I got curious about the web technology choices the two candidate's campaigns have made. So I took a look at the source code behind their websites. You can do this by visiting http://www.mittromney.com and http://www.barackobama.com and then selecting "View Source" in any browser. Romney's campaign website reveals
- it runs on Drupal
- it's served from Amazon CloudFront (which I believe had a big outage tonight)
- the code is a mess
Obama's campaign website by contrast has clean code that includes a giant ASCII-art Obama logo at the top of the page spelled using the letters 'u', 's' and 'a'. Classy nerdy fun. Click the screen-shot above for a bigger view. Check it out!