Technology: Making of President Obama

Barack Obama was last week elected the 44th president of the United States.
He entered the history book as the first black president of USA and a dramatic climax in the race for the White house for relative newcomer to national political scene.
Obama, lanky and always neat in a dark suit is the story of American dream and audacity of hope.
He  emerged in America’s political scene in March, 2004 from a raucous primary as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate and went ahead to beat Jack Ryan, a wealthy political neophyte and Republican opponent for a seat held by Peter Fitzgerald, another Republican who retired.
Obama's campaign and success was the story of his supporters, whose creativity and enthusiasm manifested through multitudes of websites.
The more nimble use of the internet by the Obama campaign in its early stages also helped him overcome the huge initial lead of Hillary Clinton in the presidential nominating race.
Even it was evident that he will win; the campaign was never tired of adding new features.
Though the internet has been moving to the mainstream of political life in the US for some years now, it is Obama that fully exploited it in mobilizing supporters and raising money online.
The President-elect also acknowledged the various contributions leading to his crown insisting that "I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign ... was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause."
But Obama’s campaign was bolstered by heavy online presence where Obama's website was used to organize a thousand phone-banking events of the race -- and other campaign-related events.
The internet grew from being the medium of a core group of political junkies to a gateway for millions of ordinary
Before the Election Day, Obama had already become a phenomenon, and his online presence so pervasive that it appealed to hard-to-reach young voters.
Just as the campaign was focused on aim of entrenching Obama in the subconscious of Americans, it was also working to counter underground, e-mail whisper campaigns and robo-calls that surfaced in battleground states.
Just as internet has helped Obama’s race to the White House, it is important for the new president to support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.