Anyone else getting flooded with money requesting emails over the past few weeks?

[NRaleighLiberal]

This is really pretty unprecedented - they wind up in my various Google email folders - the updates, social and primary tabs - I've gotten them from president Obama, Biden, you name it - dozens and dozens of them. I don't remember an email wave of $$ requests like this so far in either of PO's terms...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I get them constantly.

And delete them unopened, since I'm unemployed and below the poverty line.

[rurallib]

2. been going on for years for me

I delete them and unsubscribe from them and it seems to generate more.
Plus the phone calls from all sorts of charities.

I have limited my donations to local candidates, FreeSpeechTV, and planned Parenthood. All others take a hike. When I get a call, I tell them that up front and give them a chance to hang up graciously before I drop the call.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I've been getting 8 - 10 a day, including the Democratic candidate for IL governor.

Just don't have the money anymore.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. It is constant, and they seem to have no idea how damaging that crap is to our chances

The message is 'it is all about money, if you give us some you count, if you don't offer up a few thousand you do not exist and might as well not vote.'

For them, it is about money, that is all any of them care about.

[clydefrand]

5. I'm getting many a day,

including from many 'out of state' democrats. Also, many phone calls as well.

[Xyzse]

6. It is getting annoying.

I just ignore them now. I was considering blocking them as spam.

[stevenleser]

7. Wrote Facebook and Twitter posts criticizing them just a day or two ago. It's too much and

the wording is silly and the attempts to make it seem personalized are pedantic.

[Xyzse]

13. Agreed, and now they are trying the guilt tripping in it too.

Where they are saying "You missed 3 emails". You got emailed this many times and no replies, from these esteemed personages.

It makes me feel like they have a lot of nerve.

[RockaFowler]

18. Those are the ones I'm getting now

I can't delete these fast enough

So annoying

[Xyzse]

19. Yep, especially since I tend to not trust emails asking for money.

I always have to go to the site directly, if I want to contribute.

[TBF]

8. I've been unsubscribing to each as they come in -

it's been constant. I can find Wendy Davis' page when I have extra money to give to a politician.

[Eleanors38]

9. I'll GLADLY accept money in exchange for an e-mail!

Unfortunately, it's the other way around.

[Orsino]

10. It's Citizens United's world.

We just rent it.

[groundloop]

11. I've got mixed feelings about this (and yes, I've been getting them also)

On the one hand, yes, it's annoying and I generally just delete them. On the other hand I understand that it takes a lot of money to win elections (especially after Citizens United), and that Democratic candidates need donations from a large number of people to counter even a few GOPers with very deep pockets (Kochs, Rove, Adelson, etc.).

[Atman]

12. I set up filters, but then they just send under different names.

It's not new. I've donated to the DCCC and Democratic Party a few times, so I'm on the "hot list." Probably MOST of my e-mail each day is from some Dem I've never heard of (and many I have heard of) saying "GLOOM AND DOOM! WE'RE DOOMED! AMERICA IS OVER UNLESS YOU SEND $3 IN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES! OOOOHHHH, THE HORROR!" They're ridiculous. Basic marketing used to be that a 2% return on a mailing was a great response. I think now they just hope for a .2% return, so they send out a bazillion ads every day to everybody. I just delete them...it's not even worth the time to set up new filters anymore.

[bemildred]

14. It's bizarre. nt

[stevenleser]

15. Kick for visibility.

I am 100% sure various Democratic party and candidate operatives scan DU. I hope they see this.

[AndreaCG]

16. It's the end of the month

All the candidates ratchet up their demands because the last day of the month is when they tabulate what they've gotten for the FEC. it's annoying but easy enough to delete them till you're ready to give if you choose to do so.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Understood - but this is unprecedented - many per day, for weeks!

[Xyzse]

20. I am about to unsubscribe from them.

Hovering on the unsubscribe button with the reason:

Because your emails have gotten far more frequent and in many ways insulting and obnoxious. The message is always only about money and how bad things are if I don't contribute. The doom and gloom is a bit disgusting and makes me just delete things. If I want to donate, I will donate directly by going to the website.

I will give it another day to think about.

[JI7]

21. there are elections coming up this year

[Blue_In_AK]

22. They never let up on me.

Everybody knows us retired folks have money to give to EVERY cause, don'tcha know? I don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number, and every morning I automatically delete about 15 emails.

[sadoldgirl]

23. Just keep deleting them

as I do, although it is a waste of time. If they keep doing this, they will annoy people so much that they may lose votes.