05 October 2024

Fundraising tactics that backfire for me

I get quite a few requests for money from candidates and PACs by email. So, I figure if I tell them what I don't like and what causes me to skip their email and block them, it might discourage them, so I do that. Sometimes. Here are a few: 
  • Disguising email titles and names of senders to make it look like it's from someone I know. 
  • Using some algorithm to make it say the email is from me. I send emails to myself, sometimes, for my own reasons, but I don't like it when a solicitation is labeled with my name.
  • Promising a chance to meet or talk to the candidate (a Trump favorite, but of course I don't get crap from Trump)... and when you open it, it's solicitation for money for a "chance" to meet them. 
  • Sob stories about extra close polls or failures to meet fundraising deadlines, etc. I read the news. I know which polls are close and which aren't, and I am aware of the level of fundraising in this election. These appeals are almost always exaggerated, or exaggerate the importance of arbitrary deadlines. 
Don't get me wrong. I'm giving a lot to elect Democrats in this election. I get it that they have to keep reminding people of the need for money, and that they have to figure only one out of a hundred actually yields a contribution. But these tactics are counterproductive for me. 

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