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Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox Near You

Posted by timothy on from the spam-from-the-pork-peddlers dept.

ooby writes "MSNBC reports that Bush and Kerry plan to shoot off a million or so emails to their closest friends. By using the Internet to distribute ads, presidential candidates believe they can reach more people using less money. I guess that's why they wrote that loophole in that awesome new spam law."

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  1. if they spam me by cyrax777 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They will certanly not get my vote!!

  2. The solution by Bendebecker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Email them all back. See how they like it.

    --
    There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
    most of us won't be able to afford it.
    -- Lemmy
  3. Hard enough to find a good candidate... by Skynyrd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not too impressed with anybody in the race, but if I'm getting spam from them - there's no way in hell I'd vote for them.

    Their spam will be sent back. Their "voter feedback" form will be used to explain why I would never buy a product advertised by spam - including the President.

  4. Re:Email? What about phone?! by Guppy06 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Last year we here in Louisiana had a gubenatorial run-off. The year before we had an ugly US Senate run-off where both sides did copious amounts of telephone campaigning (canned messages from Bush, Daschle, et al) which pretty much got everybody angry (or so they say, there were still more voters in the run-off than the open primary).

    At any rate, last year there was very little telephone campaigning, except towards the end there were a few calls here and there at annoying hours for one candidate, and when word got around that candidate accused his competitor of hosting the telephoning in order to frame him.

    Are you sure those calls are really from Kerry supporters?

    One of the two reasons I'm not happy about "campaign finance reform" is that focusing more on limits and less on accountability actually helps things like this happen. The more otherwise legitimate contributions are forced to be made in roundabout manners, the more chaffe the truly despicable campaign practices have to hide among.

  5. Re:better spam than mass-mailings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I want to hear it, I'll go to their website. Saves the trees, and keeps my inbox clear.

    They're profitting by this e-mail (paid if elected), so it's spam.

    So fuck um both. I hope someone brings a class action lawsuit against them if they do this horse-shit.