Apparently, We're all totally fucked.

[Kber]

I know this because every email or mailer I get for the Democratic Party says so. The last one was titled something like "Unmitigated Disaster" and the opening line was "We just can't catch a break!"

I don't know what the rest of the email said because I deleted it immediately.

Who the hell decided that this year we'd try to motivate voters by telling everyone how much things suck and how hopeless things are.

Shit hell damn, but if fear were my primary motivator, I'd be a republican.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. And it's amazing how sending my $3...

TODAY will solve it all.

Damn! It's all my fault for not sending that lousy three bucks.

[Kber]

2. Is that why?!

Are they taking lessons from televangelists?

[awoke_in_2003]

11. I knew it was you, you TreasonousBastard

[Cal33]

20. It's just a way of making people donate more. I donate what I can and delete the

messages without reading them.

[elzenmahn]

3. Fear, and reverse psychology...

...I'm getting tired of these emails from the Dems, too.

But they're seeming to work - last I checked, the Dems are setting records for fundraising.

[louis-t]

4. I get 30 a day.

Everyone from the president down to state legislators I've never heard of. They're begging for money, pleading, saying 'don't delete this', etc.

[marble falls]

5. Exactly. It'll be more like to dampen voter turnout than encourge it.

[rock]

6. Ah, the Lindsey Graham method of collecting campaign contributions

(You know, "We're all gonna die!&quot

[Triana]

7. I get about 40-60 of them per day in my inbox.

I delete them.

I understand the Pete Petersons, Sheldon Adlesons and Koch Brothers are financially propping up the American Taliba er... Republican Party and that Dems - with only us piss-poor, struggling and/or unemployed people to support them mostly, but you can't squeeze blood out of a rock or a turnip.

The bottom line is: WE. CANNOT. COMPETE. WITH. $400 MILLION. FROM. KOCHS. TO. BUY. 44,OOO ADS. EVERY. ELECTION. SEASON. (and that doesn't take into account Adelson, Peterson and the rest of the rich bastards and corprats buying themselves their favorite diabolical shithead politician to help them do their dirty deeds).

We just CAN'T.

So. The solution is for DEMOCRATIC politicians and DEMOCRATIC VOTERS to get their asses busy and make it a #1 priority to OVERTURN CU and RESTORE the goddamned VRA or something that does the same thing the VRA does. Until that happens (at the very least) - there's nothing else we can do but give our measely few bucks and VOTE VOTE VOTE.

That's it.

[airplaneman]

9. Personally I wont donate to political causes.

But I never miss an election. Always vote and always study the issues. I always encourage everyone I know to vote. And yes we can never compete with big money. I don't even think we should try.
-Airplan e

[Hortensis]

22. Me too, Triana :(, but we can compete with the Kochs until we fix this problem. Plain numbers.

are way, way more of us than them. Almost 66 million people voted for Obama in 2012, and many millions more don't like what the Kochs and their ilk are up to either. If we averaged $10 apiece total... Just until we get big money OUT of elections entirely, of course.

Since we're retired on a tight income, last year DH and I set up a couple of auto-pay $10 monthly dribbles, and these e-mail pleas have gotten a handful of $3 heres and $3 theres to tight races. We also auto-donate a little dribble to a group working on comprehensive campaign reform. Painless done this way, but it's added up to more than we could just write a check for.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. All those emails, etc., are money begs. And then they don't actually DO ANYTHING with that money,

either, except suck-up to the GOP and blow smoke up our asses about why the DEMS are in terrible shape.

No thanks!




The Washington kabuki theatre rolls right along...

[BlueDemKev]

10. The "unmitigated disaster" will occur if Democrats sit on their asses and don't on Nov. 4

If the Rethugs take the Senate and we fail to gain key governorships it will be because, like in 2010, too many Democrats didn't feel the need to vote in a midterm election.

Your $3 alone may not seem like much, but small donations from a great number of people adds up very quickly and can be used in get-out-the-vote efforts in states with key Senate races..

We CANNOT let 2010 happen again!! GET OUT AND VOTE IN 2014!!

[bigwillq]

12. I now just unsubscribe from every e-mail

from a political organization and/or candidate. It's all BS anyway.

[marlene.elyse]

13. OK, so I read your post a while ago and I just checked my email.

This is ridiculous. From some of them:

"Marlene, according to our records, you haven't made an online donation in 2014 to support Ann’s Arizona campaign."

"kiss all hope goodbye"

"we're PLEADING with you marlene"


I don't even live in Arizona. It's bad enough our congress has been turned into full time fundraisers, but now my inbox is filled with apocalyptic guilt mail. It is the email equivalent of clinging to my leg as I'm trying to walk out of the room.

[Kber]

14. "Guilt mail".

Perfect term

[davidpdx]

15. I know I'm getting pretty sick of them as well

I donate from time to time when I can, but I've been working on my dissertation and have to spend an exorbitant amount of money for editing.

[Scuba]

16. I'll keep deleting them until they start touting some actual policies.

[tuhaybey]

17. Good article on it

Politico did a good piece on the phenomenon. Highlighting a guy named Brandon English as the person behind it.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/urgent-democratic-emails-fundraising-bonanza-brandon-english-109775.html

[Kber]

19. VERY interesting article - thanks

It seems to be working, just not with me. Guess I'm just s bit of an outlier.

Thanks for the link. It's a good read.

[lunatica]

18. Election years should be renamed the "Silly Season"

It used to be that's the name they called the slow news season when, evidently, there would be a rash of UFO sightings.

I'm already in the process of withdrawing from the inevitable Presidential election campaigning that will start the day after the new Congress is elected this November. Hell! Some people are trying very hard to start it now, but it can only start when the first person running for President announces it.

It promises to be the craziest ever. Idiocracy will be King in both parties.

[Xyzse]

21. I've disconnected my phone from my emails actually.

Makes me happier.