2008
March 15th, 2007 @ 9:10 pmIn honor of California moving up its primary (and to spark up the blog and make me “care” about politics again), I am starting my 2008 Presidential Campaign watch now even though that goes against my better judgment. I am starting with an experiment. today, I “joined” the campaigns of Hilary, Barack, Giuliani, and McCain - I can’t be bothered to use full names and you know who I mean - that is, I signed up for their e-mail lists. I’m tempted to sign up with a different e-mail address and zip code because it would be interesting to know whether there’s any blue state/red state variance in e-mail campaign messages. Iowa City doesn’t get the San Francisco speeches or ads and vice versa so why would the written communication be the same (other than the logistics of parsing that out - but modern technology is amazing).
I picked the four people I could stand the most and plan to compare, analyze, and mock their messages. I’ll think about signing up for a few of the longer shots and people whose messages I imagine I’ll have a hard time stomaching. I should be fair, but I haven’t got a lot of time to devote to this. We’ll see.
One observation, so far. I only got confirmations and thank yous from Giuliani and McCain. Both were amusing. Giuliani, mindful of aggressive anti-spam defenses, asks me to add his site’s url to my safe senders list. McCain asks me for money and to set up a “McCainSpace” page, which made me giggle because it comes off like an awkward, desperate to be hip (”the kids still like MySpace, right?”) rip-off. But I give them points for the effort. Why do Hilary and Barack take me for granted?
