I would bet that this is an anti-DDOS (distributed denial of service) measure.
Hmmm....after digging a little, it looks like that suspicion was correct:
See
yahoo news:
Quote:
Web sites run by President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election committee and the National Republican Committee were down for several hours Wednesday, caused by a denial of service attack by unknown hackers.
It's at least the third time since 2000 that hackers have targeted these sites.
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