[coob]

I don't think this is a good idea it's almost certainly passing off [1] which is illegal.

Not to mention confusing.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off

[vannevar]

As a political protest, this would likely be protected speech. Free speech is after all supposed to be the rule, not the exception. I am surprised though that a professional politician and his staff could be so out of touch with the web that they never registered their names as domain names.

[gwillen]

I don't think it can be passing-off without goods or services being involved. There's probably some tort here, though...

[jessriedel]

You can just append "?banner=none" to the URL to prevent the banner from appearing. The mobile version is annoying.