People have been spammed by the Dean campaign. Sort of. This is from the executive summary at spamvertized.org:

This spam bubbled up in mid August, 2003. The Dean Campaign may have outsourced an email campaign to Emailresults.net, based on claims by Emailresults.net that the campaign would be opt-in. There was some sort of due diligence failure on the part of the Dean campaign, as a google search on “emailresults.net” shows numerous references to their propensity for spamming on the first two pages of search results.

After the Dean campaign was presented with clear cut evidence as to the nature of emailresponse.net, they investigated promptly and terminated their relationship with the company that same day.

You want perfection? Get another candidate. And you’ll want to give up on the Net also. But from what I can see, the campaign reacted admirably to its gaffe.

The fun part is watching the slashdot discussion try to figure out what “net savvy” means. E.g., written sarcastically: “I will only vote for people who can configure a Cisco router. That way, I am assured that their political stances, and agendas coincide with mine.”

In a semi-related item, the Dean campaign blog quotes from an article about Dean by Katha Pollitt in The Nation:

Every time the press pooh-poohs his chances, every time they gloat over some trivial misstatement, every time they make fun of Vermont and describe his supporters as “Birkenstocked” “Deanyboppers,” I think about the free ride the media give Bush, who says more false and foolish things in an afternoon than Dean has said in a lifetime…

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