I need your advice. And your money. To its credit, when I asked, the Gore campaign provided me with its direct-mail pieces. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also failed to come through, even refusing to give me the phone number of its direct-mail consultant. Even as the millennium approaches and candidates pay lip service to new Big Ideas, their fund-raising machines flash back to the moldy oldies of campaigns past, pandering to voters' basest instincts in the privacy and comfort of their living rooms.
Letters come dressed up as important-sounding policy surveys.
By asking that campaigns send nothing to one group they would be uncomfortable letting another group read. And by demanding that copies of all direct mail be posted on the Internet for everyone to see.