McCain and Lieberman Announce “Our Team” in Google AdSense Banners at “Say Cheese”

The announcement of John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate is a widely anticipated in the next few hours. Currently, political reporters have only speculation; on the Charlie Rose show live from Denver, Mark Halperin even admitted he “had no idea” who McCain would chose, but the bets were for Tim Pawlenty.

However, there have been a few sightings online of McCain campaign banners and search ads prominently featuring Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. First, at www.DaniWeb.com, blogger slfischer reveals that Google Adsense keywords may be exposing McCain’s intention to chose Joe Lieberman. Specifically, a search of the keywords “McCain Leiberman” produce a keyword ad promoting the two.

And, in the last few hours, we’ve received a few screenshots of a Google AdSense banner ads displayed on this site, photoprez.com. These banner ads show McCain and Lieberman together; here is the final frame of the ad:

McCain and Lieberman are pictured together, in a happy moment. The ad is paid by McCain 2008 and the call to action asks users to “JOIN OUR TEAM”. Note, the use of the possessive “OUR TEAM”… Are John McCain and Joe Lieberman a team?

Update: Other online readers are seeing this ad as well. “Awesome Blogger” Bob Cesca saw the same John/ Joe banner ad. Are these ads geo-targeted or running nationwide? Generally speaking, our users who reported seeing these ads are on the East Coast. More sightings must be documented to determine the scope of McCain’s Google media buy.