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Having Trouble With Bernie Sanders' Website? He Wants To Help

Sen. Bernie Sanders recorded a video for visitors to his campaign website who try to navigate to webpages that don't exist.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders recorded a video for visitors to his campaign website who try to navigate to webpages that don't exist.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is on board with the latest trend among prominent politicians, and not just because he's running for president. Sanders is one of a few presidential hopefuls having fun with their 404 page. That’s the page on a website that comes up when a user enters an address for a page that doesn’t exist.

For example, if you're trying to find Sanders’ “About” page on his campaign website, and you accidentally type in “berniesanders.com/aboot” with a misspelling of “about” in the address, there’s no page there.

Most 404 pages are pretty boring, because they’re not frequently seen. If you navigate to vpr.net/nooz instead of vpr.net/news, you can get an idea of the typical 404 page.

But as Mediaite has reported, presidential candidates hoping for a victory in 2016 have been having some fun with these pages. Hillary Clinton uses an old family photo and a pun, Rick Santorum takes a shot at Hillary Clinton. And Sanders? He recorded a video to help people get back to the campaign site:

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Taylor was VPR's digital reporter from 2013 until 2017. After growing up in Vermont, he graduated with at BA in Journalism from Northeastern University in 2013.

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