Perhaps neon yellow Nike running shoes are a tongue-in-cheek allusion to Democratic candidates “running” for office and trying to get people to the polls. Because when many visitors checked the state Democratic Party’s website Thursday, they were promised “Absolute flexibility for a natural run” and told to “Just Do It.” The problem: Those messages came from Nike, not Democrats.
As early voting opened for state primaries, the Democratic Party was trying to clean up a web glitch that rerouted many would-be visitors to okdemocrats.org instead to nikeshoeshop.com. Instead of learning about the party platform, voting or candidates, web visitors were given the opportunity to purchase running shoes.
The problem affected web traffic from the search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo. It apparently did not affect direct traffic to the website or visitors following links elsewhere on the Internet, including Facebook.