E-mail

• One-fifth of Americans acknowledge political spam could have an impact on their vote, according to a survey of 1,000 adult Internet users in the USA. (MailFrontier)
  
  
• On November 1, 2004 and Election Day, about 1% of all spam - more than 40 million messages each day - was political. (MailFrontier)
  
  
• Nearly 1.4 billion messages linked to the presidential election have been from August to November 2004, with a 300% jump since September. (MailFrontier)
  
  
• GOP.com has 3 million subscribers who receive a weekly message. The Democratic Party and the Kerry campaign together have more than 5 million e-mail addresses, party officials say. (USA Today)
  
  
• The predominant theme of each email sent out by both candidates in the week prior to the election was distributed as follows: Bush Kerry - Give Money 8%B, 57%K; Get Out the Vote 38%B, 29%K; Issues/Events 54%B, 14%K. (The message each candidate sent on or just before Election Day asking recipients for their vote was not counted) (Daily Kos)