Campaign Fundraising Emails
Campaign Fundraising Emails
[An e-mail inbox window is displayed. On each line appears an illegible e-mail address and a checkbox.] Donate now. It's crunch time, and we're low on cash. If you chip in just $5 by midnight, we… Donate $35.57 now! Our data team has determined that we should ask you for $35.57 to optimize the… Help. Our campaign made some mistakes and we need a lot of money ASAP. Any kind, but cash is… Washington is broken. When I win, I'll look those other senators in the eye and tell them: "Jobs." Then I… Hopeless. It's bad. Really bad. If you don't chip in now, the darkness spreading across the land will… As the first woman to fly a fighter jet through our state's formerly all-male university, I learned… We're broke. No paid staff. No ads. And the cafe has told us to stop using their wifi to send fundraising… When Amy decided to run for Congress, I was like "Huh?" but I checked Wikipedia, and apparently it's a branch of… Are you familiar with the Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch? His work illustrates my opponent's plan for… Being a single mom running a small business while going to law school while being deployed to Iraq taught me… I will lead the fight against the big banks, special interests, the Earth's climate, and our children. I… Wow. Have you seen this video of the squirrel obstacle course? Incredible! Anyway, I'm running because I… Outrageous. Granted, this was a few years ago, but did you hear what President Ford said about… Whoops. Due to a typo, we spent months running attack ads against Tom Hanks. Now, we need to make up for… They say we can't win— that we're "underdogs" with "no money" who "lost the election last week." But they don't… Our campaign's only chance is to seduce Jennifer ActBlue, heir to the ActBlue fortune. For that, we need a fancy… Doom. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed, like rain on… Warmest greetings. I am the crown prince of Nigeria. I am running for Congress because I believe that…

Many politicians and organizations in the United States have taken to using email  to conduct aggressive fundraising drives seeking campaign contributions. Signing a petition or expressing interest in a cause can lead to being added to a myriad of mailing lists for similar groups, all looking for support. This comic shows a caricature of the kind of inbox that can result from this. The emails get more and more absurd as the list goes on. For example, the last one combines a request for campaign contributions with the infamous 'Nigerian prince' advance-fee scam phishing scheme.
[An e-mail inbox window is displayed. On each line appears an illegible e-mail address and a checkbox.] Donate now. It's crunch time, and we're low on cash. If you chip in just $5 by midnight, we… Donate $35.57 now! Our data team has determined that we should ask you for $35.57 to optimize the… Help. Our campaign made some mistakes and we need a lot of money ASAP. Any kind, but cash is… Washington is broken. When I win, I'll look those other senators in the eye and tell them: "Jobs." Then I… Hopeless. It's bad. Really bad. If you don't chip in now, the darkness spreading across the land will… As the first woman to fly a fighter jet through our state's formerly all-male university, I learned… We're broke. No paid staff. No ads. And the cafe has told us to stop using their wifi to send fundraising… When Amy decided to run for Congress, I was like "Huh?" but I checked Wikipedia, and apparently it's a branch of… Are you familiar with the Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch? His work illustrates my opponent's plan for… Being a single mom running a small business while going to law school while being deployed to Iraq taught me… I will lead the fight against the big banks, special interests, the Earth's climate, and our children. I… Wow. Have you seen this video of the squirrel obstacle course? Incredible! Anyway, I'm running because I… Outrageous. Granted, this was a few years ago, but did you hear what President Ford said about… Whoops. Due to a typo, we spent months running attack ads against Tom Hanks. Now, we need to make up for… They say we can't win— that we're "underdogs" with "no money" who "lost the election last week." But they don't… Our campaign's only chance is to seduce Jennifer ActBlue, heir to the ActBlue fortune. For that, we need a fancy… Doom. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed, like rain on… Warmest greetings. I am the crown prince of Nigeria. I am running for Congress because I believe that…
