Direct mail gets less attention than television commercials or campaign events. But it is a battleground in the presidential race worth keeping an eye on, as the campaigns and their proxies communicate privately with voters.
Take, for example, a recent mailing from the American Civil Liberties Union. "I'm writing you today with an urgent plea for your participation," says the letter, signed by the executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero. Then, in boldfaced type: "Fueled by racial animosity and political desperation, Trump won't stop at anything to keep people from the polls this November."
There won't be a Republican on the ballot in Massachusetts's Seventh or Eighth Congressional District in November, but that doesn't mean U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) or U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) will be running unopposed.
Both Lynch and Pressley have challengers on the ballot, and there will also be a write-in campaign in the Seventh district against Pressley.
