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hrmjustin

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Thu Jul 3, 2014, 11:31 AM Jul 2014

You’ve Got Mail: Fund-Raising Emails Bombard Inboxes More Frequently Than Ever

Ross Barkan

Nancy Pelosi had acknowledged the obvious this week. They keep emailing.

“President Obama has emailed you. Vice President Biden has emailed you. And now I’ve emailed you. We wouldn’t all be asking if it wasn’t so important,” Ms. Pelosi, a California congresswoman and minority leader in the House of Representatives, wrote in an email Monday from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “We wouldn’t all be asking if it wasn’t so important.”

The email’s subject line was apropos: “We keep emailing.”

In the heat of campaign season, emails begging for cash are bombarding inboxes with ever increasing frequency. No politico or donor is safe from the barrage, which is either highly effective or incredibly alienating, depending on who is asked.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/07/youve-got-mail-fund-raising-emails-bombard-inboxes-more-frequently-than-ever/#ixzz36Q5r4Ngf

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