I just "unsubscribed" from White House e-mails

[babsbunny]

What about you? If we all unsubscribe in a short period of time, would they take notice? I am really done.

[Maat]

1. I did that a few months ago.

So, I know how you feel.

I actually disenrolled from the Democratic Party shortly after Obama took office - a ConLaw instructor defending "prolonged detention" (denial of habeas corpus rights) did it for me.

[jaxx]

2. Why?

[dems_rightnow]

3. That'll teach 'em

Or not.

[Dream Girl]

4. You tell 'em!

You sound so proud.:sarcasm:

[Leopolds Ghost]

33. 30,000 people unsubscribed from Obama's twitter feed on Friday. It made the news... Your thoughts?

[carolinayellowdog]

39. Nothing but content-free snark

welcome to ignore

[Autumn]

5. I did that. the only one I get e-mails from is Bernie

I trust him to let me know what is going on.

[treestar]

10. If Bernie were a better leader

wouldn't he be more than the sole socialist in Congress?

You trust Bernie, even though he voted for Obama's health plan?

If it were just Bernie proposing this compromise with Republican Congress, you could go along with it, due to trust of him?

Do Bernie's emails ask for support in progressive policies? Or just trash Obama?

[Autumn]

16. Yep I trust Bernie. I have no problem if I have

to disagree with him. Yes Bernie's emails ask for support in progressive policies. God himself could support this capitulation with the pukes and I will have not one ounce of hesitation in being against it. republican values go against my values and if you read a few words of Gods son, he is against them too.

[treestar]

29. So if Bernie votes for it, you will dump him, too

Correct?

[politicasista]

20. +1

Something to think about.

[Shagbark Hickory]

37. I agree with just about everything Bernie says but I don't trust him any more than the other

politicians.

He's still a politician.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Good move. Theyh don't even offer coupons with their advertising. K&R

[11 Bravo]

7. I'll alert the media.

This will probably be the lead story on FoxNews.

[treestar]

8. done with what?

Democrats in the WH?

Were you done with Dems having the House of representatives in 2010?

[JI7]

9. i'm waiting for someone to call me for donations

so i can tell them off and post it on DU to show everyone how cool i am and get a bunch of recs .

[d_b]

11. did it two years ago

[Scurrilous]

12. You're my hero.

:thumbsup:

[Faygo Kid]

13. I promise to do it next email.

[peacebird]

14. I unsubscribed last week. I understand his twitter following has taken a real drop off too.

Which sounds like he is losing the young voters

[Tx4obama]

17. No he is NOT losing young voters.

Folks unsubscribed because the WH was sending out too many tweets all at once.
Some folks don't like a huge stream of tweets showing up in their feed all at once.
It has NOTHING to do with support.

[peacebird]

19. interesting, thanks for letting me know that!

[Tx4obama]

27. More info

Excerpt

SNIP

... the aides operating the @BarackObama account on Twitter began tweeting out the Twitter handles of GOP lawmakers. Starting with Alaska’s @LisaMurkowski and ending with Wyoming’s @CynthiaLummis, the account sent out 113 tweets from 12:42 to 5:49 p.m. yesterday.

SNIP

http://www.mediaite.com/online/barackobamas-lost-followers-a-tempest-in-a-twitter-teapot/


p.s. He will get the majority of them back :)
The WH will just have to remember not to send out so many tweets within such a short period of time.

[EFerrari]

22. Obama has been losing the youth vote since before the midterms

and it's likely because youth unemployment is the highest in the nation.

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[Tx4obama]

18. Unsubscribing from WH emails doesn't do anything other than make you less informed

about what is going on.
That is nothing to brag about.

[Name removed]

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[RB TexLa]

23. Dat ell learn em!

:rofl:

[blkmusclmachine]

24. Done.

[readmoreoften]

25. I just tried to rec your post up to zero but the DU Catfood Commission already got to it.

[graywarrior]

26. If you already believe he doesn't give a shit, then why do you think he'll give a shit?

[Kaleko]

28. I hope you won't let the vicious ridicule

heaped upon you in this thread discourage you from following your own innermost convictions and principles.

There are people here who follow their leader no matter how often he betrays them and reneges on his own campaign promises. This is group-think herd mentality, and it borders on idolatry if you ask me.

[Raine]

30. I'm still getting it, I think. I marked it as spam

so that's where it's been going if it's still coming ... out with the trash. :evilgrin:

[DTinAZ]

35. Most of them already wind up in spam filters anyway

I've got a lot of expertise in email deliverability, and the official campaign email messages are so defective (they include image links to a blacklisted server) that they wind up with very high "SpamAssassin" scores and trigger other spam tests, thus winding up in the spam folders of a large number of the intended recipients.

I tried contacting someone from the Obama campaign, but that was a waste of time (no phone numbers, no response to email), so I started working on alerting someone at Blue State Digital (they contract with lots of Democratic campaigns). I finally got a live person there who believed me, and she said she had sent my info on to the Obama campaign, but nothing has changed and they didn't contact me, and the email messages still have the same spam profile problems.

I guess I'm done trying to help them get their messages delivered.

[nilram]

31. Unsubscribing from WH emails doesn't do anything other than reduce your propaganda intake

I highly recommend it. I did it long ago, don't know if they'll notice or not.

[ijiji]

32. k&r

[bluethruandthru]

34. I did that a long time ago. n/t

[progressoid]

36. Me too. A long time ago.

k/r

[Hatchling]

38. I thought about it.

Then I decided I needed to know what they were saying.