Lincoln Davis’s site looks terrible and unreadable in IE. I haven’t tried it in FF yet. So he copied the look without even getting it right.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

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I’m not paid, but I’ve created a few websites in my day (some political, others not). Sometimes I see a design that inspires me in some way, and I’ll take bits and pieces from it, from other sites, and from my own thoughts, and mix it together to create something new.

But this couldn’t be more blatant if it had a “Paid for by Deal for Governor” disclaimer at the bottom.

Nothing on the wayback machine either.

the point is that rather than come up with their own design, they COPIED a design by a successful design company. Laziness. They’ll get away with it of course, but it’s good to point it out.

Oh wait, that wasn’t supposed to be thrown back at you, was it?

In any case, Erick’s “commercial” for The Stoneridge Group is simply giving props to a campaign consulting firm that does great work for Republicans. Were we so lucky that we had hundreds of Republican firms throughout the country that are this good with web design and implementation.

The sites are two different sets of coding architecture and different sets of code. The “look-n-feel” is not that dissimiliar from other designs I have seen, though maybe not in the political arena as much.

Personally I don’t like either site. Super sized pictures and some pretty cosmetics don’t do much if the sites don’t provide needed information. In this regard, Deal’s site is a failure.

I’m from Gwinnett County and know little of Deal. Little anecdotes and phrases, that he is “conservative”, a leader”, “dedicated”, “against earmarks” tells me little of a guy that has served for years in Congress and now wants to be Governor. In fact, for someone that represents the next district over I know nothing about him and only knew him by name only in the past when he was in some sort of list.

When I go to a politician’s site, I want information. What Ga legislation is he for and why? What is he against? What specific programs would he like to cut or create and why. How does he feel about the outer loop, or the “Brain Train” or building another regional airport and other transportation issues? How does he feel about the push to eliminate property taxes, how will he fund and implement the Ready when Move On Act? How is he going to handle ongoing Hope funding. What bills did he author in his years in Congress, what was the outcome? What is his historic voting record? Did he vote for No Child Left Behind or Medicare Part-D, or Tarp?

This type information is not on his site, or at least it is buried somewhere I don’t have the time to find. I click on the “Ask Deal” and ask specific questions and have never received a response from his campaign. So what good is a site if it can’t engage a potential supporter regardless of cosmetics or some other politician borrowed some cosmetic ideas.

It’s a waste of the power of RedState to grumble about such insignificant things. Lack of readily available detailed information and timely responses from a political campaign to questions posed is more of a serious issue to discuss.

I’m still out looking for which Republican candidate for governor I am going to back.