This fucking guy.
A troll gets trolled. RICH KELLY

Dino Rossi might have lost three state-wide elections, but in his bid for Washington's 8th Congressional seat he's raised more than double the money of his nearest Democratic competitor. (According to the FEC, Rossi's raised $578,822.00 to Dr. Kim Schrier's $273,577.45.) All that money is pouring into Rossi's Congressional Campaign Committee, Dino for Congress. However, if you go to www.dinoforcongess.com, you'll find Rossi's campaign slogan—"Congress is broken and needs fresh leadership"—hovering above Brayden Olson's campaign video. Clearly Rossi wasn't tech-savvy enough to scoop up the domain name of his own campaign committee.*

I rate this a solid troll. Every ad Rossi does, every mailer he sends out, everything he buys has to say "paid for by Dino for Congress" on it. If people search for that online, they'll find an advertisement for one of his opponents. In this way, he's kind of his own anti-Rossi internet campaign.

Will it change the fact that Rossi is going to be hard to beat? Absolutely not.

Does it confer any special tech cred on Olson and his campaign? Maybe +0.3 percent. I remember a recent Democratic campaign that engaged in a lot of swift domain chicanery to no avail.

But Rossi's failure to secure his own campaign committee's domain name—not to mention the fact that he's a rubber-stamp Republican running in a district ruled by rubber-stamp Republicans for over a decade—does undermine his claim to "fresh leadership."


*Eds note: This post originally stated Rossi couldn't legally change the name of his campaign committee. He can. We regret the error.