A couple of weeks ago we posted that Team Obama had a novel idea:
For weddings, you shouldn’t give a bride & groom a toaster or impersonal cash … rather, you should make a donation – in their names – to O’s re-election campaign.
Well. according to the NY Post …
So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites — even though Facebook, Twitter and other networks have been a strong suit for the Obama campaign.
“The number of links and stories about the announcement is very low” said a spokeswoman for the social-media tracking firm Topsy.
Wedding industry pros called the ploy tasteless and divisive.
Brides-to-be commenting on her site’s message board called the initiative “gross!” and “tacky”
“We found that nearly everyone found this to be a bad idea.”
Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise
The Homa Files 