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I was curi­ous to see what each cur­rent Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date used for their web­site man­age­ment and which doc­type they used. So I went on a lit­tle bit of view-source hunt­ing. Can­di­dates checked on:

• Ron Paul
• Mitt Rom­ney
• Michele Bach­mann
• Rick San­to­rum
• Jon Hunts­man
• Newt Gin­grich
• Rick Perry
• Gary John­son

Here are the results for each:

• Ron Paul: Word­Press with xhtml Strict
• Mitt Rom­ney: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
• Michele Bach­mann: Word­Press with xhtml Transitional
• Rick San­to­rum: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
• Jon Hunts­man: Expres­sion Engine with xhtml Strict
• Newt Gin­grich: Dru­pal with xhtml Transitional
• Rick Perry: Word­Press with html5
• Gary John­son: Word­Press with html5

Note­wor­thy spots: none of them use Joomla. Hunts­man dared to ven­ture away from the WordPress/Drupal crowd. Perry and John­son are both using both of my pre­ferred choices.

If I was vot­ing strictly based on CMS+Doctype, John­son would win hands down, with Word­Press and the html5 doc­type. How­ever, John­son is in the same posi­tion that Ron Paul was in, circa 2008. Even though, from what I’ve seen of John­son, I think he’d do a lot of good and bring a lot of san­ity back to Wash­ing­ton, when it comes down to it, my vote is going to be for Ron Paul. Too much of me agrees with what Ron Paul has been say­ing, to pass up on the chance right now.