Why I didn't contribute to Dennis Kucinich's campaign

Look, I know the reality. Dennis Kucinich likely isn't electable, even if he got the nomination (which he won't). But I like him better than the other Democratic candidates, and that's why I'll be voting for him in the primary. But I didn't contribute to his campaign, despite the fact that I wanted to.

Dennis' web site has some really horrible graphic design going on. His logo has 3 different font faces in it. A transparent background on the icon rather than white. Bad alignment. It's not a total disaster, but it's clearly an amateur job.

So I wrote to him and politely suggested some changes he could make to his logo to make it look better—more professional. I even included some mock-ups I created that I thought were better, including the one attached to this post. His response? Silence. I even resent a few weeks later as a follow up. Still no response.

Now I didn't really expect him to swap out his logo with mine. But I did expect some sort of positive reply. After all, here is a passionate supporter who has an opinion about helping the campaign. Even if it's a bad idea, you send back a thank you note. With a campaign like Dennis', the only hope is to really engage the base, suck the wavering into the base, and get them to convert others.

This could have been a very different post, about how Dennis is the only candidate you should consider, and why you and all of the people you know need to work to get him elected. But for the cost of not even responding to my suggestion, they lost my donation, and they lost my verbal support.