It's particularly disheartening to get a letter like this from the office of a politician that you actually admire. Often it's not a fake survey, but rather a

It's particularly disheartening to get a letter like this from the office of a politician that you actually admire. Often it's not a fake survey, but rather an appeal to "fight voter suppression" (for the US left) or "defend our borders" (for the US right). Always ending by asking for money, of course. I wonder if the politicians are even aware their staffs are sending out spam mail like that, and making them seem like hucksters.