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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got two postcards in the mail today.  One postmarked California, one postmarked IL.  Handwritten notes encouraging me to vote on 11/2.   As a person who doesn’t like either candidate, this goes in the “Con” column for McAuliffe.   Are there any studies showing these things help?  Because honestly it really just pisses me off to have strangers from across the country sending me these things.  My vote is based on the best interest of my state, not people outside the state.   [/quote]

Poor you.  I got a "handwritten" note from "Jenni" in California urging me to vote for Terry McAuliffe.  I assumed it was just sent through some cheap mailing house in California and that Jenni really lives in Annandale.

What I think is funny are the texts.  They are all from boomer women named Linda, Judy, Donna, Janet and most are from DC's 202 area code.  They could be from  liberal women in DC who are volunteering for the McAuliffe campaign because their husbands knew him at Catholic U Law School or knew  Bill Clinton at Georgetown undergrad.  Several today said something like:  "President Biden is coming to Northern Virginia today!  (Boomer lady name) with the Democrats inviting you to join President Biden and Terry McAuliffe in Arlington.  'Doors open' at 5 pm."

Poor boomer ladies.  No one told them that Biden will be at a park and there are no "doors" at the park.

I always respond the same way:  I will be in touch with you on November 3.

The poor dears generally respond with a perky:  "Thank you!!!!"[/quote]

So, you make your decision about voting and people in general by their  names? Really? And you are judging us?

I am a BOOMER, yes, who wrote postcards, did cold calling, and  did canvassing. I am not  your "poor dear." I don't sit at home watching the  View and writing  cards while sipping tea. How condescending  and  ignorant. I am a college professor who cares about 
1. Your taxes
2. Your public education
3. Gun sense legislation 
4. Your voting right
5. Your health care
6. Your democracy...very much at stake in your state. 
The people I know who write these are teachers, lawyers, veterarians, business owners, federal workers, engineers, coders, and social media managers.

You are offended by boomer names? Great, we will sign  the next round with Madison,  Brynnleigh, Crystal, and Ashley. 2 of these ladies, with names like this, named their kids Ruth and Eleanor, BTW. 
I live in another state,  and I can assure you that your election very much affects all of us, and that is what the postcards remind everyone of. Looks like these ladies are far more aware of what's going on than this generation.

Jenni doesn't live in Annandale. She likely is a MomsDemandAction volunteer from California,  or Iwillvote.com volunteer  or anyone of many [b]groups that  towed the line for  the last 4 years trying to save this country.[/b] Look at Georgia...do you think that  didn't take effort from these tireless volunteers? If you vote the opposite way as a result of receiving a postcard (?), then you will deserve Trump 2.0. But, we don't.  Wake up. [/quote]

I am awake, and I don’t believe that you are a college professor.[/quote]

I am, but my phone  auto correction isn't. It doesn't recognize the word "[b]toed[/b]."  I think you could have figured that  out, right?

I teach Organization Behavior at the college  and graduate level. Perhaps  you make false assumptions about people based on their boomer names and random typos on threads. If so,  it's not going to  be productive  or useful for you going forward. There's a million typos in this thread alone. [/quote]

Hey, PP, I posted the original message about texts from the Judy/Donna/Janet boomer ladies.  They do just what the college professor is doing in this thread, responding even to no effect.  They are like a ravenous jackal who gets hunk of zebra and won't let it go.  They must have the last word.  That's why I have dubbed them "the poor dears" just like that poor dear, Hillary Clinton, had her "basket of deplorables."  The "poor dears" are boomer ladies whose husbands left them long ago and who between their "jobs," family money and what they can cadge from their kids maintain a genteel poverty that allows them to send annoying texts and to respond to them ad infinitum.  Or they have disinterested spouses who would rather play with their AP, grandkids, or shoot the breeze at Starbucks with randoms.   Why wouldn't these "poor dears" volunteer to send texts that allow them to be trolled until the person receiving them becomes as disinterested in them as the rest of the world.

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