From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unles

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Candidates using dirty SEO tricks? Sounds like an interesting new phenomenon to me. There's quite a bit of intersection between politics and technology, especially as technology spread through our society, so I wouldn't be so quick to write off a post just because it involves politics. This story is equally interesting regardless of whether it's about a senator, a big corporation, an athlete, or just about anything/anyone else with some degree of fame.