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Rudeness doesn’t pay. That’s bad news for Emma, Selva, Sherry, Sarah, Hannah, Laurel, Michelle, Matthew, and all the other get-out-the-vote (GOTV) spam texters employed by the Hillary Clinton campaign:

Clinton volunteers were inadvertently turning out Trump voters. Possibly in significant numbers.

Volunteers for the Clinton campaign in Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina have reported that when reminding people to vote, they encountered a significant number of Trump voters. Anecdotal evidence points to anywhere from five to 25 percent of contacts were inadvertently targeted to Trump supporters. …

The campaign’s text messaging GOTV effort may have been the worst offender.

The Huffington Post story focused mostly on the idea that the texts reminded people to vote, even if they were Trump voters. It doesn’t seem to think that receiving, as I did, several unsolicited text “reminders” a day would anger voters, as it did me.

If you’ve done anything, you pathetic election spammers, you’ve made me dislike your campaign, not like it.