华盛顿 —— 美国人正处于2026年中期选举的最后冲刺阶段，但许多选民几个月前就已对这一竞选季感到厌倦。今年人们不得不应对的大量政治短信、电话、邮寄传单以及数字和电视广告，已让人难以忍受，以至于一些人正重新考虑是否今后还要向竞选活动捐款。
WASHINGTON – Americans are in the final stretch of the 2026 midterm elections, but lots of voters were done with this campaign season months ago. The barrage of political texts, calls, mailers, and digital and TV ads that people have been navigating this year has been so unbearable that some are reconsidering ever donating to a campaign again.
“我每天至少要收到10到20条短信，来自全国几乎每一位候选人、每一个民主党组织或任何与民主党和中期选举有关的团体，”科罗拉多州选民安妮愤愤不平地说，“这让我以后再也不想捐款了。我早该料到会这样。”
“I must get at least 10-20 texts A DAY from literally every single candidate in the country, every single Dem organization or anything to do with the Dems and midterms,” fumed Anne, a Colorado voter. “It makes me never want to make a contribution again. I should have known this would happen.”
“我是俄亥俄州的蓝派选民，每天从谢罗德·布朗和艾米·阿克顿的政治行动委员会收到的短信数量简直疯狂！！！”斯泰西说道，她分享了自己当天收到的五条短信截图。
“I am an Ohio Blue voter, and the amount of text messages I receive on the daily from the Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton PACS are INSANE!!” said Stacy, who shared images of five text messages she’d gotten that day.
“我总是举报并删除。两分钟后，我又会从另一个号码收到几乎完全相同的短信，”她说，“我现在拒绝向民主党捐款，因为当黑金以亿为单位投入这场斗争时，我的钱根本不起作用。”
“I always report and delete. 2 minutes later I get almost the exact text but from a different number,” she said. “I refuse to donate to D’s right now because my money does not make a difference in this fight when dark money is spent by the 100’s of millions.”
安妮和斯泰西是《赫芬顿邮报》最近向读者征集意见、询问他们是否因收到过多不必要的竞选信息而感到精疲力竭时，做出回应的数十位选民中的两位。我们提问了，你们确实踊跃回应！
Anne and Stacy are among the dozens of voters who responded to HuffPost’s recent call-out to readers asking whether they’re burned out from getting too many unwanted campaign messages. We asked, and you certainly delivered!
来自全国各地的人们发来了堆积在厨房餐桌上、注定要被扔进回收箱的政治传单照片，以及连续收到多条未经请求的短信截图。大多数人只愿意提供名字。
People from all over the country sent in photos of political mailers piled up on kitchen tables, already doomed for the recycling bin, and screenshots of multiple unsolicited text messages in a row. Most were comfortable only giving their first names.
许多人表示，他们习惯在竞选季被定向投放广告，但今年的情况感觉升级了。不止一人将其形容为“骚扰”。安妮在主题为“Relentless”（没完没了）的邮件中指出，她认为引发这波短信轰炸的原因是：她曾向一个民主党超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）捐过一笔小额的一次性款项，可能是为了支持德克萨斯州民主党参议员提名人詹姆斯·塔拉里科。自那以后，她的手机就被垃圾短信炸了。
Many people said they’re used to being targeted with ads during campaign seasons, but this year has felt next-level. More than one person described it as “harassment.”In her email with the subject line “Relentless,” Anne pinpointed what she thinks triggered the deluge of text messages she’s been getting: a small, one-time donation to a Democratic super PAC, possibly in support of Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico. Ever since then, her phone has been blowing up with crap.
“我真盼着这事赶紧结束！！”她在周四的另一封邮件中说，并分享了一张刚收到的短信截图——这次来自内布拉斯加州联邦参议员提名人丹·奥斯本的竞选团队，短信称他“讨厌乞求”捐款，但还是会这么做。“我觉得他们把我们都当傻瓜了，”她抱怨道。
“I can’t wait until this is over!!” she said in another email Thursday, sharing a screenshot of another text message she’d just gotten – this time from the campaign of U.S. Senate nominee Dan Osborn in Nebraska, saying he “hates to beg” for money, but he’ll do it anyway. “I feel like they think we are all idiots,” she grumbled.
几乎所有人都表示，被政治传单、短信、电话和电视广告淹没，但失控得最厉害的是未经请求的短信。
Nearly everyone said they’ve been overwhelmed by the mix of political mailers, texts, phone calls and TV ads coming at them, but that it’s the unsolicited text messages that have gotten the most out of control.
加利福尼亚州选民克里斯分享了一张截图，显示他在几小时内连续收到了八条垃圾竞选短信。
Chris, a voter in California, shared a screenshot of eight spammy campaign texts in a row he’d gotten over the course of a few hours.
最近一条是关于内布拉斯加州共和党人的。六分钟前，他收到一条模糊的信息，声称是后续索款。再往前两小时内，他收到未经请求的短信，内容涉及卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪的所谓“辞职通知”、被斥为“丑爆了”的新版美国护照设计，以及一条谴责针对密歇根州民主党参议员提名人阿卜杜勒·赛义德的攻击性广告的信息。
The most recent text was about Republicans in Nebraska. Six minutes earlier, he’d received a vague message claiming to be a follow-up request for money. In the two hours before that, he’d received unsolicited texts about a supposed “resignation notice” for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a new U.S. passport design denounced as “SO UGLY,” and a message denouncing attack ads against Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
“我的短信应用几乎完全没用了，”克里斯感叹道。“我已经到了可能会办一条新电话线，然后绝不捐款，也不做任何会把新账户与过去的政治活动联系起来的事情。”
“My text app has become almost totally useless,” Chris lamented. “I am at the point that I may get a new phone line and then NEVER donate or do anything else that would link that new account to past political activities.”
马萨诸塞州的埃里克·K.说，他每天收到10到15条未经请求的短信，大多是关于其他州的选举，候选人他从未听说过。他过去常常定期向民主党筹款平台（如Act Blue）捐款，但说自己今年停止了，“因为我的联系信息被严重滥用了。”
Eric K. of Massachusetts said he gets 10 to 15 unsolicited text messages a day, and most are about races in other states, with candidates he’s never heard of. He used to regularly donate to Democratic fundraising platforms like Act Blue, but says he stopped this year “because my contact information has been abused SO badly.”
“我一直避免给任何一位民主党候选人（我绝对支持他们，而且会投全票，因为共和党人实在太糟糕了。）一分钱，”埃里克说。“即使在这个重要的选举周期里。”
“I have refrained from giving one cent to a single Dem (who I absolutely support and will vote straight ticket because the Republicans are SO bad.),” Eric said. “Even in this important cycle.”
他为民主党候选人可能因资金不足而失利感到苦恼，但决定不参与永无止境的筹款请求体系更为重要：“这很傲慢、放肆且无礼。名人呼吁令人可怜。”
He’s struggled with the prospect of Democratic candidates losing due to lack of funds, but decided it’s more important not to be party to a system of never-ending fundraising requests: “It is presumptuous, audacious and rude. The celebrity appeals are pathetic.”
还有那些过于戏剧化和危言耸听的短信，比如加利福尼亚州的金收到的MAGA短信。“声音颤抖，双腿发软，克拉伦斯·托马斯摘下面具，直指个人，”其中一条特别奇怪的短信写道，并附有捐款链接。另一条筹款请求写道：“金伯利，我给你写了一封私人信。我很震惊，需要你。”
Then there are the overly dramatic and alarmist text messages that people are getting, like the MAGA messages Kim in California received. “Voice trembling & knees weak, Clarence Thomas dropped the mask & got personal,” reads one particularly weird one, with a link to donate. Another fundraising request reads, “Kimberly, I wrote you a private note. I’m shaken and I need you.”
“我不知道自己怎么会被列入他们的名单，”金说，“但这让我怀疑，是不是这些短信就是共和党人最近如此疯狂的原因。”
“No idea how I got on their list,” said Kim, “but it makes me wonder if these are why Republicans are so insane lately.”
“我觉得自己正在受到我所支持的竞选活动的惩罚。”几位读者说，他们现在对向任何候选人捐款都感到犹豫，因为他们知道会因此收到更多离谱的短信和电话。
“I feel like I’m being penalized by the campaigns that I’ve supported.”Several readers said they’re now torn about giving money to any candidates because they know they’ll be rewarded with more bonkers texts and calls.
“我个人每小时都会收到大量的竞选短信和电子邮件。这现在已经超出了荒谬的范畴，”佛罗里达州坦帕市的Barbera Speros说。“我觉得我正在被我支持的竞选团队惩罚。”佐治亚州选民Jeff表示，他在9月下旬曾向佛罗里达州民主党参议员提名人安吉·尼克松捐款一次，从此便淹没在短信之中。他放弃了删除短信，转而把它们存下来，看看大选前能收到多少条。他最近两周的统计数字？438条。
“I’m personally getting an enormous amount of election texts and emails every hour. This is now beyond ridiculous,” said Barbera Speros of Tampa, Florida. “I feel like I’m being penalized by the campaigns that I’ve supported.”Jeff, a Georgia voter, said he made one donation to Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon in late September and has been drowning in text messages ever since. He gave up deleting them and is now saving them up to see how many gets before the election. His current count from the last two weeks? 438.
“我以为2024年已经很糟糕了，”Jeff说，“但这简直是另一个层级了。”政治信息频率激增的一个显而易见的原因是，本选举周期的资金总量也激增了。2026年选举周期在广告上的支出已超过100亿美元，创下历史新高，有望超越2022年中期选举和2024年总统大选周期的支出。
“I thought it was bad in 2024,” Jeff said, “but this is next level.”An obvious reason for the surge in the frequency of political messaging is that the amount of money in this election cycle has also surged. More than $10 billion has already been spent on ads in the 2026 election cycle, a record high on track to surpass spending in the 2022 midterms and in the 2024 presidential cycle.
人们并非只是感觉收到的电话和短信变多了。电信公司NumberBarn在9月进行的一项全国性调查发现，美国人平均每周收到13条政治短信和电话，大多数受访者形容信息量比以往选举更加过度。该调查未说明受访者所在的州份。
People aren’t just imagining they’re getting more calls and texts, either. A September national survey by telecommunications company NumberBarn found that, on average, Americans reported getting 13 political texts and phone calls a week, with most describing the level of messages as more excessive than past elections. It didn’t specify which states people were in.
这项调查筛选了1000名成年人，性别比例均衡，还发现，在回复“停止”以取消订阅政治短信的受访者中，72%表示此后仍持续收到政治信息。近半数受访者表示，收到过多竞选电话或短信会让他们对该候选人的好感度下降。
The survey, which screened 1,000 adults evenly divided by gender, also found that 72% of respondents who replied STOP to a political text message said they kept getting political messages afterward. Nearly half said that getting too many calls or texts from a campaign made them view that candidate less favorably.
无论是在采访行程中还是为本文采访时，HuffPost交谈过的人都提到，发送过多政治信息可能会适得其反这一观点。
The idea that sending too many political messages could backfire has come up with people HuffPost has talked to, whether on reporting trips or for this story.
“一个答案是，谁给我看最后一条负面广告，我就投给另一个，”阿拉斯加一位恼火的共和党选民黛安娜上个月在被问及计划在该州参议院竞选中支持谁时告诉《赫芬顿邮报》：“我是说，我们还得再忍受两个月这个吗？”“这让我怀疑这是不是一种策略，故意把民主党人惹恼，让他们不去给那些发垃圾信息的候选人投票，”一位得克萨斯州女子在社交媒体上表示，她说因为手机不断收到民主党发来的政治短信而震动，导致她无法在工作中集中注意力。“我让它们停不下来！”
“One answer would be whoever shows me the last negative ad, then I’ll vote for the other one,” Diana, an irritated GOP voter in Alaska, told HuffPost last month when asked who they plan to support in the state’s Senate race. “I mean, we got two more months of this?”“It makes me wonder if it’s a ploy to annoy Democrats so much they’ll not vote for the spamming candidates,” one Texas woman offered on social media, saying she can’t concentrate at work because her phone keeps buzzing from all the Democratic political texts she gets. “I can’t get them to stop!”
到了一定程度，所有这些相互竞争的竞选信息的强度简直荒谬至极。
At a certain point, the intensity of all these competing campaign messages just becomes absurd.
得克萨斯州奥斯汀的珍妮说，她原本每天已经收到至少六条未经请求的政治短信，后来又开始收到完全相同的短信——只不过这次是写给一个叫凯西的人的。
Jenny in Austin, Texas, said she was already getting at least six unsolicited political text messages a day when she started getting the exact same texts she was already getting, again — this time addressed to someone named Kathi.
安克雷奇的民主党选民安说，她接到了同一个女士三次推销式的政治电话，每次她都告诉对方他们已经谈过了。但那女士最后又会再打回来。
Ann, a Democrat in Anchorage, said she’s gotten spammy political calls from the same woman three times, and each time, she’s told the woman they’ve already talked. But the woman ends up calling back again.
华盛顿州第3国会选区的选民黑尔说，他们家几周来每天都收到同一份竞选传单，支持共和党众议员提名人约翰·布劳恩。黑尔家里所有人都是民主党人。“它们直接进了我的回收箱，”黑尔写道。“我家没人会投共和党的票。”对科罗拉多州一些人来说，每个登记选民都会收到邮寄选票，可他们在已经投票后几周内还一直收到竞选传单，这根本说不通。
Hale, a voter in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, said they’ve been getting the same campaign mailer at their house every day for weeks in support of Republican House nominee John Braun. Everyone in Hale’s own house is a Democrat. “They immediately go into my recycling bin,” wrote Hale. “No one in my family will vote for a Republican.”For some in Colorado, where every registered voter gets a ballot in the mail, it makes no sense why they’re getting campaign mailers for weeks on end after they’ve already voted.
“我通常在收到选票后一两天内就寄回去，”科罗拉多州选民大卫说，“只有在那之后，竞选传单才开始出现在我的信箱里，我觉得这既好笑又让人沮丧。”不过，选民们在这个选举周期中分享最多的，是对金钱主导政治的深深挫败感。一些人怀念过去政治候选人专注于向美国公众推销政策主张、而不是追逐百万富翁捐赠者、也不诉诸 AI 生成的垃圾内容来对对手发动丑陋攻击的日子。
“I usually return mine within a day or two of receipt,” David, a Colorado voter, said of sending in his ballot. “Only then do the campaign flyers start appearing in my mailbox, which I find simultaneously funny and frustrating.”What voters shared the most about this election cycle, though, was their deep frustration with how money has overtaken politics. Some yearned for the days when political candidates focused on selling their policy ideas to the American public instead of chasing multimillionaire donors and resorting to AI slop to land ugly attacks on their opponents.
“一切都关乎金钱，而不是政策，”俄亥俄州选民珍妮弗在电子邮件中说，“我只是厌倦了消极攻击、谎言和腐败。”她在落款处写道：“真诚地，一位精疲力竭的美国人。”
“It’s all about the money instead of policies,” Jennifer, an Ohio voter, said in an email. “I’m just tired of the negativity and the lies and the corruption.”She signed off, “Sincerely, An Exhausted American.”