With millions of users every day The Pirate Bay is an ideal site to reach tech savvy people all around the world. The power of this online platform is used by many advertisers to target customers, and not just those looking for a Russian bride either. Currently a secretly-funded conservative-leaning organization, listed by the New York Times as "getting the most bang" for its advertising bucks in 2010, is running an anti-Obama campaign on the world's most resilient torrent site.

In the run up to elections, parties generally court potential voters by knocking on doors and reaching their eyes and ears through printed media, radio and TV.

Of course, the power of the Internet has come to the forefront in recent years and is now widely used as a tool to maintain current supporters and entice fresh blood to the cause.

Right now, Fight for the Future and Personal Democracy Media are using the Internet to encourage netizens to get registered to vote, no matter who for, but not everyone is so neutral.

One organization currently using the web to attract voters to the Republican cause is the American Future Fund organization.

According to Open Secrets, the AFF is a conservative-leaning organization that primarily raises money in support of candidates who back “conservative principles that sustain free market ideals focused on bolstering America’s global competitiveness across the country.”

AFF currently lists seven advertising campaigns on its website, but at least one is missing. Right now, AFF is running an ad campaign on the world’s largest torrent site.

Geo-targeted to visitors from the United States, the AFF campaign consists of a large skyscraper ad on the left hand side The Pirate Bay. Alongside pictures of President Obama from 2008 and 2012, the ad asks people if they are “better off” after four years of “the same speeches”.

So whose funds are sponsoring torrents?

AFF doesn’t disclose its donors but Open Secrets staff discovered three, including the Center to Protect Patients’ Rights who in December last year donated $11,685,000. The sources of CPPR’s donors are shrouded in anonymity (Open Secrets point to a “mystery health care group”) but in 2010 the group pulled in $61.8m.

Despite the controversial nature of The Pirate Bay, there can be little doubt that AFF will reach millions of potential voters with their ad campaign, but whether this is what they intended remains to be seen. Last week the Canadian government were quick to disassociate themselves from a campaign they inadvertently ran on The Pirate Bay.

Or maybe, just maybe, AFF’s ad agency realizes that advertising on The Pirate Bay will not only reach millions, but will be cost effective too.

Due to the site’s reputation, advertising there comes cheaper than some people might think. And with the New York Times revealing in 2010 that AFF won 76 percent of their House and Senate races making it the most successful big-spending Republican-leaning group, it’s possible that getting the most bang for their bucks naturally involves torrents these days.

TorrentFreak asked AFF if it does, and we’ll post an update once we’ve received a response.