There is a link at the bottom of the page to: http://www.4president.org/ http://www.4president.org/ This site has archives of campaign websites, website featu

There is a link at the bottom of the page to: http://www.4president.org/ http://www.4president.org/ This site has archives of campaign websites, website features, and campaign ads. I think it's fascinating to see the paradigm shifts in web design indicated by these four-year gaps. And campaigns being a temporary thing, I think they perfectly encapsulate the design of the "era". I was going through the years and was thinking "sure, a lot changed from 1996 to 2000, so of course the sites will look a lot different but there is no way 2008 is that much different than 2012". Wrong. I think this is just what happens when you see web design evolve slowly over four years -- you don't think it's changed that much. Then you actually see a site in 2008 vs. 2012 and realize the difference. The 1996 Phil Graham and Pat Buchanan sites look like classic Geocities-style design! The stark differences in design of the nominated candidates vs. the ones who lost in the primaries. This gap seems to have been most apparent in 1996 and 2000, during the bubble, when top-tier web designers were probably insanely expensive.