Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times runs an article about the spammers' choice of presidential candidate. From the article: 'According to Secure Computing Corp., spammers were nearly seven times more likely to slap Obama's name in the subject line than McCain's during September. The bulk of Obama's lead in the spam wars came from a massive blitz early in the month.' Secure Computing released additonal numbers for the past weeks, and McCain was able to close the gap in the latest spammers' poll."

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Obama is the king on internet.

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We have observed that negative posts on Obama have been deleted on Google, Yahoo, and various news/blog sites.

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[Kingrames]

Obama is the candidate of choice by nearly 90% of the rest of the world. It's no secret that if you want people to read your spam, you'll put his name in the header. He's popular.

Re:Actually what I worry about more

[deroby]

Oh come on,
I've gotten plenty of Obama or/vs McCain mails too and I have a .be email address for gods sake.

These mails are NOT targeted, they are just sent out at random based on some lousy email-list; So yes, that implies they are coming from some spammer/bot-net.
However, receiving a mail from candidate X does not necessarily mean that X (or his spin-team) asked given spammer to send these out. Jumping to that conclusion is just bad-mouthing IMHO. In fact, I find it much more likely that
    * the spammer is simply sending out spam to un-train the filters
    * the spammer prefers candidate Y and tries to make X look bad by drowning people in annoying X-spam, whether Y paid given spammer for this or not is impossible for me to find out.
    * the message contains some malicious payload

Frankly, I don't care, it's going straight to the recycle bin anyway.