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Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2012–2026
peak thread · 94 comments
139 pts
latest 20+ return · 2026-01-28
55 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I wish sites were still designed this way. Not the animated gifs or the font size 1, but the fact that once the site is loaded, it's completely done. And if I refresh the page, or bookmark the link and come back later, I'm going to see the exact same page. According to the Chrome developer tools the page took 2ms to render and 4ms to paint. I write JavaScript professionally but not all web sites need JavaScript, in fact…

The site is down but you can see the archive.org backup here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211130194555/http://www.doleke... Wow, Bob Dole's campaign talks about internet policy in 1996 here: http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm Really interesting comparing notes. > "Bob Dole strongly supports the observations made in the recent National Research Council report that widespread use of encryption to promote information security outweighs the difficulties encrypted communications place on law…

varenc·76-point thread·

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eschulz·55-point thread·

Not that I ever gave a wit about Bob Dole, but this is HN relevant: Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer Bill Clinton believes in bureaucratic micro-management of the information economy. Within his first 100 days as President, Bill Clinton proposed the Clipper Chip -- a secret government-controlled encryption algorithm -- and a companion key escrow system where two government agencies would hold a copy of the keys for every Clipper user. Since then Bill Clinton…

flomo·34-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
310

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
226

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2012-11-14Dole/Kemp '96 Online CampaignFirst breakout · Best threadbdz13994
2015-11-11Dole Kemp '96McKittrick3419
2021-12-05Bob Dole for President (1996)mhh__21
2021-12-06Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (1996)amir734jj7646
2024-10-22Dole/Kemp 1996 CampaignTomte41
2026-01-28Dole Kemp 96 Web SiteLatest 20+ point returnDamnInteresting5565