Who do you think is responsible for the insane "Vote or Else" emails the DNC's been sending?

[Ken Burch]

It's hard to believe even our Beltway types would think those emails were going to help. Who do YOU think is to blame?

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	Dem "strategists" who think voters actually ENJOY being threatened
	4 (80%)
	Dem "strategists" who WANT us to do badly so our presidential ticket can run against "the do-nothing Congress" in '16
	0 (0%)
	Right-wing hackers who've done this as sabotage
	0 (0%)
	Space aliens...just because they'd do that.
	0 (0%)
	Somebody else(list suggestions below)
	1 (20%)
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[NightWatcher]

1. I haven't got the 'or else' emails, only the 'we're doomed' ones.

It's a beg for money and it sucks as motivator.

[hrmjustin]

2. I got a letterr telling me to vote or else and I don't know who is responsible for it.

I will say that I would love to know what they will do to me if i didn't vote.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Someone else: Democratic Party idiots

who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag.

I don't think even THEY imagine people like being threatened, but one or more of them must have decided that Republican-style scare tactics are a good idea, and came up with this thoroughly bone-headed and counterproductive way of implementing such.

And no, it wasn't a false-flag operation, unless Republicans have successfully planted moles into the top leadership of the Democratic Party. (Although, now that the notion crosses my mind, it WOULD explain a lot about the way the moronic Dems have been running this campaign….)

If the Dems DIDN'T do this, they should have already gotten out ahead to deny it & announce a bunch of lawsuits.

[Peacetrain]

4. I saw this in another thread

and I read the article they printed.. I did not see any threats in that article.. so if someone could please print for me the letters that have been threatening, so I can understand what the heck people are talking about..

[99th_Monkey]

13. Thank you.

I'm waiting here until some more light is shed on WTF we are even talking about here.

[Peacetrain]

19. I am still waiting too..

As confused as ever to what they are talking about

[Thinkingabout]

5. It is good to vote, our candidate mau not always win but at least I vote.

There isn't a perfect candidate but at the opportunity to vote we must do so.

[Ken Burch]

6. Agreed.

I think a lot more of us will vote this year than in 2010. The question is...will that be enough?

[JI7]

7. if anyone is feeling threatened over it i think there is something wrong with them

but maybe it's because i don't get the emails so i don't know about how scary it is to recieve such a thing.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Did anyone say they felt threatened?nt

[Recursion]

8. Somebody who focus grouped it and saw that got the highest open rate

It's really, really difficult to get people to read emails.

[Doctor_J]

9. Lots of DUers

It's probably a waste of time sending doom e-mails and posting screeds at DU. Everyone on the mailing lists and at DU is already going to vote. One downside of the computer age. In days of yore they at least had to pay a nominal fee for each plea. Now it's free.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Unemployed nuns who miss teaching.

[MannyGoldstein]

12. The inventor of indoor grow lamps

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5697265

[SalviaBlue]

14. I don't know, but I tend to agree with Thom Hartman,

voting should be required as a part of citizenship.

[brooklynite]

15. Just a guess (since nobody's actually published the letter), but YOU'RE not the target audience

Let's be honest: campaign managers are general PAID to be smart about what sells to disaffected, low information voters. Political activists and bloggers probably respond to something else.

[Thirties Child]

16. Four or five messages a day

All of them trying to induce guilt. They can't believe the way I've let them down, the dems will go down in flames and it's all my fault because I haven't donated. It's not working - I don't feel guilty, just surprise that they don't mind alienating me.

[emulatorloo]

17. Rove and the Koch Brothers alienate me

Not Dems trying to raise money to fight the fucking sewage being poured onto Dems in those Koch/Rove lie ads.

On edit: I'm out of money too, but I can knock doors and GOTV.

[TBF]

18. Given that the party has been taken over by the 3rd way

I think we know who is running it & who benefits. The money class. As always.