John McCain? Please get back to me.
Historic events trigger unprecedented action. For the first time in its eleven month long existence, Ecomorons.org endorses a candidate in the United States Presidential Elections.
Who’s best for America? We used the scientific method to figure it out.
We developed an experimental setup that would allow us to test the candidates ability to respond to a simple everyday-situation: An email was sent on January 4, 2008 to the press rooms of both campaigns, posing two simple questions. They were:
Does candidate X own a bicycle? And if so, when has he last used it?
Here are the results:
We are still waiting to hear from John McCain. We don’t actually think he’ll ever write back. Which is o.k., since he has since admitted to not owning a computer. But none of his campaign PR henchmen responded either, which is really quite upsetting, because they specifically mentioned on their webpage how they invited bloggers to contact them. So, John McCain, that’s lame. Also, we read a few weeks ago that you own 13 cars. Come on…
Barack Obama has not answered our questions, either. But nevertheless, his staff had the wherewithal to put us on their mailing list. So they have sent us about 562 (estimate) emails since. And quite successfully so: They raked up several donations that way. Smart.
We cannot help but endorse Barack Obama for his superior skills of dealing with emails from bloggers.
PS: Our experiment also works really well in hindsight: It has shown Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to be totally unqualified to be president, for they, too, failed to transfer our email address to their spamming list, let alone get back to us.
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Tags: Barack Obama, bicycles, John McCain