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Heh, no, I don't think that is what *is* happening, just that it could happen. It might just be advertisers looking to sell products.

I'm just saying that my scenario is both plausible (in terms of motivation) and economically feasible. The only thing that really matters is the number of ad impressions, since people can see the ad messages without clicking on them. Depending on the per-click ad cost, you can get several thousand impressions per dollar.

That definitely beats TV ad rates and targets a relatively wealthy, literate, and higher-voting-percentage audience who would be most affected by this type of associative marketing. A political operative for one of the other contenders would not be wasting his budget if he buys ten million impressions of such a message for a measly $5k.

LOL, instead of a Google bomb, an Adsense attack? Oh well, it'll probably happen, but it'll probably backfire, too. Too many suspicious, net-savvy people online, with a lot of time on their hands.