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09/26/2007: "Obama campaign spams to forge popularity numbers"

Recently a number of my spam-trap email addresses have been seeing daily emails from the Obama presidential campaign asking for donations.

I tried using the unsubscribe link, which failed to operate; I sent the campaign an email directly , and received a form response thanking me for "joining" their campaign and asking me to donate. Phone calls to the campaign office have been uniformly dismissive - 90% of the time they just hang up, the other 10% they put me on hold claiming to be "getting someone who can fix this" and then drop the call.

It's obvious that they have no intentions with complying with my request to get off of their email system - and equally obvious that they have padded their supposed "record number" of supporters by purchasing bulk email lists from spammers.

[ Manipulated by invisible oligarchs, the "perfect candidates" are set up to make you think you're making a choice - but you're not. ]

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