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Just look at the uptimes in the article for the RNC/DNC sites. Who do you think has to pay more attention administering his box?

You literally have no idea of the kinds of things that the admins on those sites are doing. If they take their HTTP servers offline to update content 5 times a day, that has nothing to do with the stability or usefulness of the underlying software. Provide some evidence that the servers were actually down and we might agree; otherwise, you're blowing smoke.

If they take their HTTP servers offline to update content 5 times a day, that has nothing to do with the stability or usefulness of the underlying software.

Why the hell would anyone do that? Taking a Web server offline to update content is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. One main reason for such bad uptime on IIS (aside from the fact that it just gets unstable after a while) is both the frequency of patches and having to reboot the system after installing those patches. The constant reboot is one of the major architectural flaws in Windows.