One of the best parts: Time will tell how effective each campaign manages to turn data, analytics, ads, and fundraising dollars into actual votes on Election Day
there is certainly room for savings/efficiency. I've 100% made my mind up, but my mailbox has been BOMBARDED with giant-format postcards promoting the candidates I'm already voting for.
These can not be cheap to print and deliver, and as such they are an enormous waste of money; money that could be used to educate/inform/persuade voters who are undecided or registered with a different political party.
I wonder if a thousand years from now, archeologists digging tough landfills will see a 4-year-periodically-repeating-layer (like a geological sedimentary layer) of these mailings and wonder "what was that all about?"
These can not be cheap to print and deliver, and as such they are an enormous waste of money; money that could be used to educate/inform/persuade voters who are undecided or registered with a different political party.
I wonder if a thousand years from now, archeologists digging tough landfills will see a 4-year-periodically-repeating-layer (like a geological sedimentary layer) of these mailings and wonder "what was that all about?"