Paterson’s Woes, Seen through Google
Nowhere is David Paterson’s impossible election situation better illustrated than in the Google results for his name (left). His campaign’s site is the seventh hit for “David Paterson,” well below several negative pages. Add search engine optimization to the long list of things that New York State’s elected officials can’t seem to get right.
At the top of his results page are two news articles detailing his latest scandal (in which he apparently contacted a woman who lodged a domestic abuse complaint against his aide).
Below those news headlines are Paterson’s Wikipedia article, the last section of which documents his moribund gubernatorial campaign, and his state government website. Then come two headlines from the Huffington Post, one questioning whether Paterson will resign and another announcing the resignation of the aide involved in the domestic dispute.
Finally, right before Paterson’s campaign website comes a Business Insider article about the rumors that circulated in Albany over the New York Times’s investigation into the governor’s aides.
Things do not look good for David Paterson.
Add to this the fact that if you start to type in David Paterson into Google, one of the suggestions is ‘David Paterson son’ (who was shooting craps on a sidewalk when police found him in posession of someone else’s ATM card), and another is ‘David Patterson Longmeadow’, an unrelated man who died on a notoriously dangerous curve in Massachussetts.
Good point–his entire dynasty is in disarray!