Joe Biden

I mean, if you think about the version on the Republican side, right? On the Republican side, the grassroots fundraising is distilled to its most grifty concentrate because they just don't need that money, right? Like the Republican financing operation is so brazenly corrupt that all of the grassroots fundraising is really just about tricking older folks. Mm-hmm.

Into entering their credit card information that is being auto charged every month and they don't know or check. Right. And that's the end state of where it's going. Right. For these kind of messages that you're seeing. And so it's both a. annoyance, and it makes the fundraising harder for people that are trying to do fundraising for important races and meaningful causes.

Into entering their credit card information that is being auto charged every month and they don't know or check. Right. And that's the end state of where it's going. Right. For these kind of messages that you're seeing. And so it's both a. annoyance, and it makes the fundraising harder for people that are trying to do fundraising for important races and meaningful causes.

But it's also just a content problem, right? Like people's perception of what the political conversation is, what democratic messaging is, what is important and needs to be emphasized and lifted up is all distorted by whatever the 0.01 zero, zero, one response rate ticking up to, you know, adding a thousandth of a percent to that.

But it's also just a content problem, right? Like people's perception of what the political conversation is, what democratic messaging is, what is important and needs to be emphasized and lifted up is all distorted by whatever the 0.01 zero, zero, one response rate ticking up to, you know, adding a thousandth of a percent to that.

I think... People say things to candidates about the email and SMS that they get. But the reality is that unless it's a presidential campaign, you as a candidate likely won't encounter most of the people getting these messages. Because like you, I get all these messages and none of them are for anybody running in my district or usually even in my state.

I think... People say things to candidates about the email and SMS that they get. But the reality is that unless it's a presidential campaign, you as a candidate likely won't encounter most of the people getting these messages. Because like you, I get all these messages and none of them are for anybody running in my district or usually even in my state.

And so you're not going to bump into these people unless you're on a plane or something, right? You're not going to bump into any of the people who your campaign is aggravating.

And so you're not going to bump into these people unless you're on a plane or something, right? You're not going to bump into any of the people who your campaign is aggravating.

Yeah, the email inbox is a more regulated place, right, by Gmail or by whatever other service you use. And so things get sorted out. There's also still an ongoing war around deliverability. And so the more of these bad practices that you engage in in email, the worse your email will perform in terms of getting to the people who actually signed up and want it.

Yeah, the email inbox is a more regulated place, right, by Gmail or by whatever other service you use. And so things get sorted out. There's also still an ongoing war around deliverability. And so the more of these bad practices that you engage in in email, the worse your email will perform in terms of getting to the people who actually signed up and want it.

And so there is a kind of balance to the economy of how email works, even though people are still doing a bunch of these practices, especially in the scam pack and like organizational area.

And so there is a kind of balance to the economy of how email works, even though people are still doing a bunch of these practices, especially in the scam pack and like organizational area.

Yeah, it's pretty much bullshit. The cost of doing business in the bad way is higher than doing business the right way and building your campaign and your organization from the bottom up ethically with consent and people opting in. And the idea that we have to do things that people hate in order to run campaigns is not limited to fundraising, right?

Yeah, it's pretty much bullshit. The cost of doing business in the bad way is higher than doing business the right way and building your campaign and your organization from the bottom up ethically with consent and people opting in. And the idea that we have to do things that people hate in order to run campaigns is not limited to fundraising, right?

And it's really toxic and something that needs to go. We don't have to make... shitty TV ads that people hate. We don't have to have organizational cultures run by really aggro, awful people managers with a bunch of HR problems in campaign organizations. There are lots of things about campaigns that people excuse in the name of winning or fundraising or whatever. And

And it's really toxic and something that needs to go. We don't have to make... shitty TV ads that people hate. We don't have to have organizational cultures run by really aggro, awful people managers with a bunch of HR problems in campaign organizations. There are lots of things about campaigns that people excuse in the name of winning or fundraising or whatever. And

I think there are enough examples now, going back to us piloting certain things with Obama, Warren, Bernie, AOC, others, that you really can make different choices and have a campaign be something good that people enjoy their experience with. And by the way, that's better for the brand, right? That's better for the party. That's better for the organization you're building.

I think there are enough examples now, going back to us piloting certain things with Obama, Warren, Bernie, AOC, others, that you really can make different choices and have a campaign be something good that people enjoy their experience with. And by the way, that's better for the brand, right? That's better for the party. That's better for the organization you're building.

That's better for the campaign organization that will be left over when the campaign is over, because too often a campaign, especially presidential campaigns. you wind up, whether you win or lose, it's still just an empty parking lot full of garbage, right, that the carnival left town.