An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

(data4democracy.substack.com)

20 points | by CharlesW 5 hours ago

5 comments

  • tzs 2 hours ago
    Political spam can be hilarious in how wrong it can be. I received this a while back (edited to remove specific locations):

    > Good Afternoon TZS,

    > We’ve noticed your thoughtful conservative posts on social media and would like to invite you to our $COUNTY County Republican Volunteer/PCO meeting, featuring an overview of this year’s Legislative session by $COUNTY County Republican Representatives $REPRESENTATIVE_LIST.

    > Please join us at the $RESTAURANT Restaurant this Wednesday, June 25, from 6-8pm for this in-depth opportunity. The evening will be informative and eye-opening!

    > $COUNTY County Republican Party www.${COUNTY}republicans.com

    > Reply STOP to opt out of future text messages.

    I found that hilarious because as far as I know everything related to politics that I have posted on social media that concerned any issue the Republicans have a position on (other than an issue where there is broad bipartisan consensus) took a position highly critical of theirs.

  • axus 4 hours ago
    Cool that they provide 500 lines of R code used to generate the analysis.

    You'd need to sign up for an API key here: https://api.data.gov/signup/

    A pass-through rate of < 2% seems unbelievable, makes me wonder how well other operations perform.

  • thatguymike 3 hours ago
    A fundraising 1.6% efficient fundraising model... This surely can't be true can it? Surely a national scandal if so?
  • bix6 4 hours ago
    How do you get off these lists?
  • gigel82 4 hours ago
    What I want to know is how do I get myself off their damn list? I collected 46 different numbers pointing to at least 21 different domains before I gave up. Reported everything to the FCC but nothing happened. These "democratic" spam texts make up 99%+ of the spam I'm receiving and it's driving me insane...