The cost of campaigns is very high, in fact Elizabeth Warren spent $42 million in her campaign for Senator and she has readily admitted corporate money was given. Can you think of one Democrat who would be willing to donate enough money for Democrats to campaign? I sure don't have the funds to donate. Many times corporations give to both candidates, never can tell where they may need a friend.

that I should send the GOP $5.00 and get on their mailing list, so that they and all their candidates could fill my mailbox with useless campaign mailings. It would help the Post Office with a bit more business, help whoever printed the materials with a bit more business and then it goes off to the recycle center.

Just my thought...

I would merely rip up the mailing and send the scraps back to them in the return envelope they thoughtfully provided.

just to be sure they had a response.

She was the GOP town-chair at the time. Then she forgot and got pissed they kept sending her mailings. We thought it was hilarious so my cousin and I took one of the mailings seeking donations for Kerry 2004 and sent it back with $40 cash. Then we forgot all about it.

About 6 weeks later, Grandma gets a letter thanking her for her donation to the Kerry campaign and a signed photo of Senators Kerry and Edwards...and goes off the deep-end at Grandpa who she has decided is fucking with her. Until she died like 3 years later, she never did manage to get off the mailing lists. Grandpa thought it was great; he used to say ever increasingly fucked-up things to her to see if she believed him or would correct him. He once told her that Masai only appear to be very-dark black and if you look really really close, they're actually midnight-blue. So she went to bingo and repeated it to the old woman she caretook for...who tried to convince me.

"I learned that from V. Are you calling your grandmother a liar?"

"Yeah. No, the other grandparent. I promise you that's who convinced her of it.

(Even if it's not in the dictionary, gullibility seems to be contagious among the very-old women of NW CT.)

There is nothing, however, to prevent creating new original protest signs that use the name and likeness of a candidate.

So, think about that.

When you say every voter, do you mean all hundred plus million in the entire country? Even in a local election, it's not cheap. I know. I ran for office ten years ago and did some mailings, and I was only running for a state representative position.

Defacing signs is a very bad idea. It's vandalism, and if you get caught you simply will make all Democrats look like vandals.

And has already been pointed out, Democrats also take corporate money, so trying to pin it all on the Republicans can backfire. But going out there and trying to educate voters is a good idea. Perhaps you can volunteer for some candidate who can use the help. Going door-to-door on behalf of a candidate is incredibly interesting and educational.

Repukes count on the dumb and dumber to not know what is going on, to respond to appeals to the flag and religion and the GOP is very good at exploiting those symbols. They simply make the Dems out to be the "other," un-American, ungodly and anti-white people...