Are You There Dude? It's Me, Obama

This election season, ProPublica has been collecting campaign emails for our Message Machine project. While we're trying to reverse engineer how these emails are targeted at voters, we also find ourselves giggling from time to time at the awkardly familiar nature of the subject lines.

If you get emails from campaigns, and would like to find out how they are targeting you, or if you just want to help out with these new Tumblrs, forward emails from Obama and Romney to emails@messagemachine.propublica.org »

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