from Hacker News

Republicans Were Sent to Spam More Often Than Democrats

by mbgaxyz on 12/29/18, 9:10 PM with 11 comments

• by mbgaxyz on 12/29/18, 9:12 PM

  From article:

  Our team created email addresses with different email providers and signed up for the email lists of around fifty different candidates, committees, and political nonprofits. In the month leading up to the election, we tracked how many emails were sent from each entity, and what percentage of those emails made it into our inbox.

  In Nevada, Democrat Jacky Rosen averaged over 90% placement in inboxes, compared to Dean Heller’s over 90% placement in spam.

  In Florida, 100% of Republican Rick Scott’s emails went to spam in Yahoo, while 100% of Bill Nelson’s emails went to our Yahoo inbox.

  While these were the most dramatic examples, this pattern emerged in every toss-up Senate race we tracked.

• by exotree on 12/29/18, 9:38 PM

  I expected a lot more depth from this article considering the heavy implication that email providers are suppressing republican-sent emails in some purposeful way. This mostly just reads like a marketer trying to find a new customer cohort based on superficial analysis.

• by orf on 12/29/18, 9:38 PM

  Alternative headline: Did Republicans send more spam emails in the 2018 Election?

• by orangeshark on 12/29/18, 10:04 PM

  Would it be possible that people are abusing the spam reporting for these email providers? Get a large enough group of people online to sign up for these candidates and mass report these emails as spam.

• by imsofuture on 12/29/18, 9:41 PM

  I'd love to see some word counts and sentiment analysis as part of this.

• by joshka on 12/30/18, 8:16 AM

  TL;DR: marketer fails to science.

• by macmac on 12/29/18, 9:40 PM

  No.