An Entire Book?
The last two Presidential election cycles I have shared all the snail mail I have received from every single candidate. You can view all of that via the "View Mailings" link at the top of the website (please scroll down to the bottom to view the latest mailings). We get a lot more mail in Iowa than many other states simply because we are the first state to vote and every candidate needs a good showing in order to stay in the face.
Every since moving to Iowa in 2005, I've had a lot of people I knew back in Florida and Ohio, ask me about the candidates and what I thought about them, since we have been privileged to see many of them in person.
So that is what go me started (with Google+ back in the day when it still existed) sharing information for others. Often you can get a little bit of an idea what type of a candidate a person is by the tone of their mailings or how they act to you in person.
With all that said, it seems that this snail mail election cycle is starting even earlier than the past several. And it starts off with one of the most unique mailings yet, an entire hardcover book. We are talking over 200 pages in hardcover. This couldn't have been cheap between printing and mailing costs.
In 2016 we had a mailing that was made out to look like an entire several page newspaper. I thought that was unique. This though tops that with my interest at least. I am not sure how many people were sent the book though, so maybe its not as expensive a campaign as it could have been.
Either way, I doubt I will read it. Its purely about the economy. And I firmly believe that a Republican who seems to make his entire campaign about the economy is not going to win the Republican nomination, especially in a more conservative area of the nation and of Iowa in general. A Republican is going to have to cover a bigger gamut of topics (Culture, Russia, China, Immigration, Abortion, Transgenderism, Crime, Social Media, Freedom of Speech, Women in Sports etc.). The economy is important (and will become more so if things continue the direction they appear to be going), but I think it is a checkbox most of the candidates automatically get on the Republican side as compared to the Democrats.
Every since moving to Iowa in 2005, I've had a lot of people I knew back in Florida and Ohio, ask me about the candidates and what I thought about them, since we have been privileged to see many of them in person.
So that is what go me started (with Google+ back in the day when it still existed) sharing information for others. Often you can get a little bit of an idea what type of a candidate a person is by the tone of their mailings or how they act to you in person.
With all that said, it seems that this snail mail election cycle is starting even earlier than the past several. And it starts off with one of the most unique mailings yet, an entire hardcover book. We are talking over 200 pages in hardcover. This couldn't have been cheap between printing and mailing costs.
In 2016 we had a mailing that was made out to look like an entire several page newspaper. I thought that was unique. This though tops that with my interest at least. I am not sure how many people were sent the book though, so maybe its not as expensive a campaign as it could have been.
Either way, I doubt I will read it. Its purely about the economy. And I firmly believe that a Republican who seems to make his entire campaign about the economy is not going to win the Republican nomination, especially in a more conservative area of the nation and of Iowa in general. A Republican is going to have to cover a bigger gamut of topics (Culture, Russia, China, Immigration, Abortion, Transgenderism, Crime, Social Media, Freedom of Speech, Women in Sports etc.). The economy is important (and will become more so if things continue the direction they appear to be going), but I think it is a checkbox most of the candidates automatically get on the Republican side as compared to the Democrats.