Donated to Doug Jones 2x but WTF!

[Cattledog]

These are some of the whiny subject lines of the emails I have gotten in the past 2 weeks. (This is common not just for Jones but all Democratic emails asking for support) Come on, where's the positive, energizing, motivational support emails?

Heartbreaking

Very unfortunate

Running out of money

We're begging YOU

SORRY SORRY SORRY

BAD news (Doug Jones)

Sadly...

[MaryMagdaline]

1. I got those too

I thought they profiled me as the negative nervous Nellie that I am.

[PJMcK]

2. I donated to his campaign

I got the same emails. Geez.

Great positive energy there, Mr. Jones.

Good luck on Tuesday.

[NBachers]

3. Sadly, it's only going to get worse *sob*

[dhol82]

4. I get those from Elizabeth Warren.

Pathetic.

[WE ARE SC13]

5. Moore is starting to pull away

Two polls are released today by Gravis and Trafalgar show him with and 4 and 5 point lead, respectively. The Gravis poll is kind of fucked up because they released a poll less than a week ago showing Jones with a 4 point lead. So your telling me their has been an 8 point swing in less than a week??? Nevertheless, as the election approaches, Republicans are doing what they always do: coming home no matter the candidate. Democrats should watch and learn.

[Thunderbeast]

6. I donated on October 28.

Since then, I have received over 150 emails asking for more. Nearly five per day.

On Wednesday, I will delete them all, but expect them to continue for weeks either way.

[Greybnk48]

7. Are we sure they are coming from his people?

Or is someone R-Fing him?

[lindysalsagal]

8. Me, too. Daily. Wish I never donated.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Same here. It's just plain NUTZ. I delete them, cursing. Soon it will be OVER.

Thank GAWD.

[frazzled]

10. These kind of email appeals make me crazy

My inbox has about 30 of them a day.

More than a decade ago (during the Bush administration) I was asked to paricipate in a telephone focus group from a liberal polling firm on behalf of the DNC or the DCCC—can’t remember which. At any rate, this was when these kind of fundraising emails were just getting off. There were 10or 12 people on the conference call. They wanted to know what we would want to hear in such emails and what would convince us most to donate. They read a list of possible headers, and asked which we would be most likely to respond to. They were mostly all the kind of scream headlines mentioned in the OP: stuff like “All is lost!” Or “Bush worst president ever!” (This was before a Trump presidency was even conceived.) everyone liked the most sensational headlines best. When my turn to comment came, I said I would be most likely to donate if the email told me what they needed the money for and how it would be spent (I already knew Bush policies were bad): to open more field offices or staff them, to buy air time or produce an effective ad, to do more voter outreach or pay the damn rent. I would have liked a headline like “We need to hire more field staff!”

There was absolute silence to my response. So now I get these hyperbolic emails every day and I delete them all. I set up a schedule of my own to donate what I can and go to the organizations’ websites unsolicited. I just don’t want to encourage the histrionics.