Republicans Are Creating Fake Sites for Democratic Candidates

In electoral politics, the candidate is meant to project a vision of governance, extolling her party's noble ideas and principles, all while letting her own beneficence shine through. When that doesn't work, you go ad hominem and straw man — you tear down your opponent and twist their beliefs into ghoulish fairy tales with which to frighten the underinformed voter. When even attack ads aren't making a dent, there's just one thing left to do: pretend to be the other guy online and see if you can vacuum up his supporters' money.

That, in a nutshell, is the desperate strategy the National Republican Congressional Committee — a GOP organization tasked with turning and keeping seats for the party in the U.S. House of Representatives — has cooked up for the 2014 midtermsAs Motherboard reported, the NRCC "created a spate of fake websites for Democratic candidates that at first glance look like normal, legit sites, but then rip into the candidate in the text. The faux sites also have donation forms that send funds to the NRCC." Read more...