Longtime readers may recall that the Republican National Committee relied on an interesting online strategy in the 2008 presidential campaign. I noted on Oct. 29, 2008, that the RNC’s official home page featured Barack Obama’s name six times. John McCain’s name, however, wasn’t mentioned at all. The presidential election was a week away at the time. A day earlier, Mother Jones noted that the only references it could find to McCain on the RNC’s website was “a link to McCain’s campaign store,” and an out-of-date volunteer opportunity at a McCain event that had passed three days earlier. The RNC was eager to spotlight the Democratic candidate, but not its own.0 It’s funny how history sometimes repeats itself. Rachel noted a week ago how weird it is that the RNC’s homepage, a month after the party named Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee, included literally zero references to Trump’s candidacy. This week, TPM’s Josh Marshall noted the same thing. Read more http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rnc-keeps-its-presidential-candidate-under-online-bushel
