bchjam said "Obama campaign" while you dismiss just the static website. That wasn't where the impressive IT investment in the Obama campaign was directed. You underestimate the amount of technology used for canvasing, volunteer management, exit polling, etc.

"Someone counted nearly 10 distinct DBMS/NoSQL systems, and we wrote something like 200 apps in Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Node.js."

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-te...

The campaign's site was also static (see http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio...)