Is it a good or bad thing that even spammers are getting involved in this year's elections? Well I guess it is to some extent. The candidates have fanned the flames of democracy so well that even spammers are getting a piece of the action in this year's electoral debate. So who's getting most of the spam attention?
According to data gathered by Yahoo News Tech from a firm called Secure Computing, Sarah Palin gave his fellow Vice-Presidential candidate a drubbing. The ratio of spam mail related to Gov. Palin compared with those of Sen. Joe Biden is 7:2. But the Democrats are not on the losing end. In fact the, the spam contest is pretty even. Obama is way ahead of McCain with regards to spam related to each of them. If that were actual electoral polls, maybe we would see more of McCain's cheap attack ads.
Secure Computing said that the spam mails were usually "nonsensical" and "shallow", dealing with trivial matters. Obama-related spam mails, for instance, discussed "race, disputes with Clinton, messianic oratory, and FOX news smears", while McCain was nailed for his "age and wealth".
This story probably has no significant relevance to anything, but its certainly fun to find out about these little details. I mean, if you look at it, the insight contained in these spam mails is a good satire of how the elections are conceived by individuals and the media. Most ideas contained within these emails are said to be inane, but hey, if you think about it, is the media's coverage of this election really that different?
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20081003/tc_zd/232721
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