For an interview take-home I was asked to slice and dice a voter donation database to find analytics ranging from simple top lists to counts/lists of people who

For an interview take-home I was asked to slice and dice a voter donation database to find analytics ranging from simple top lists to counts/lists of people who were most likely to donate again (following a given formula). Many of those potential recurring donors were people like this, who had given once and whose other (publicly available) political metrics indicated they were a strong match for donating again if matched. I'm registered independent, but donated to my first political candidate (ever) recently, and experienced this same hounding, to the point that I ended up blocking/banning/giving fake info just to keep them off my notification screen every day. I figure these people dont even bother filtering like the work I did above, as I had never once received solicitation for donation before. Now I'm bracing for the inevitable deluge of similar hounding from other candidates in coming years. I dont give my real address, i use email labels for filtering and have leaf accounts in a forwarding network of emails specifically for crap like this. I can only wonder how its going to work if the current political campaign "best practices" alienate a large slice of voters just because the current most-active slice is susceptible to that kind of manipulation.