// num_days = -1;
// To have the cookie expire in a matter of hours, remove the *24 from the ged (Get Expiration Date) function. The num_days = 5; variable will now be the number of hours. For your information, the rest of the figures mean, times 60 seconds, times 60 minutes, times 1000 milliseconds. 


// page to go to if cookie exists
go_to = "http://www.iowagop.org/site/lookup.asp?c=ruIWKbMYIvF&b=5616519";

// number of days cookie lives for
num_days = 7;
function ged(noDays){
    var today = new Date();
    var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
    return  expr.toGMTString();
}

// Do not edit from here down
function readCookie(cookieName){
    var start = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName);
    if (start == -1){ 
        document.cookie = "seenit=yes; expires=" + ged(num_days);
    } else {
        window.location = go_to;
    }
}

readCookie("seenit");