“Unsolicited campaign snail mail cannot be stopped,” said Eitan D. Basically, politicians have a right to reach out to you, and there’s very little you can do about it. So-called noncommercial speech is protected by the 1st Amendment.
There’s a constitutional element to this. “Calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities and telephone surveyors are permitted.” “Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all,” says the Federal Trade Commission. Unfortunately, those safeguards don’t apply to political messages. The federal do-not-call list exists for just this purpose, as do and other resources to block unwanted marketing pitches. They also have to stop bothering you if you so request. In the private sector, companies have strict rules about whom they can call and email, and under what conditions. Politics notwithstanding, there’s the broader issue of the intrusiveness of unsolicited emails, texts and calls. “There might be better ways of running campaigns, but I don’t think that unsolicited contacts are going away anytime soon,” he said. “Unsolicited campaign materials may be annoying, to be sure, but there is evidence that they work,” said Jacob Neiheisel, an associate professor of political science at the University at Buffalo. Trump’s campaign and its affiliated Republican committees raised $210 million. Indeed, the campaign of Democratic candidate Joe Biden reported last week raising $364 million in August alone. “Even if you only get relatively few responses, it’s worth it,” he said.