Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is losing the online war in the effort to unseat Republican Mitch McConnell.
The first two websites that display following a Google search for the term “Alison Lundergan Grimes for Senate” Tuesday were websites set up by groups aiming to defeat her next year.
The groups behind the two sites paid Google advertising revenue in order to have those websites appear at the top of page, something that is a common practice.
The first return is a website that looks like an official site for Grimes, but is operated by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Featuring a picture of Grimes next to a picture of President Obama, the site declares the 34-year-old Secretary of State is “not ready” for the U.S. Senate, and contains links to media reports critical of last week’s event in Frankfortwhere Grimes announced she was entering the Senate race.
A “donate” button at the site links to a page where contributions can be made to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The second website displayedfollowing a Google search for the Grimes Senate campaign is a site run by the McConnell re-election campaign that urges viewers to sign an online petition opposing what it calls President Obama’s “war on coal.”
Grimes hasan official Senate campaign website, but it does not appear until the third page of a Google search.
