So how many phone calls have you gotten from George Bush, your own Secretary of State and countless other organizations telling you to make sure you get out and vote...and vote for "their" issues? Personally I am sick of going home every night from work and finding 2-3 messages on my answering machine telling me how I am suppose to vote; whether it's for a local school levy issue or George Bush telling me how scary John Kerry is and I should make sure to vote George/Dick on November 2nd.
The number of calls for you is probably indicative of where you live, in battleground Ohio, but up here in New Hampshire, two calls to our house, as far as I know. One right-to-life urging votes for President Bush and all pro-life candidates and another from some Reep organization. I suppose they work somehow, but political calls during dinner hours can't actually make that much of a difference. Reminds me of that Simpson's episode where Homer got that calling machine and tried to get everyone in Springfield to send him $1. I think he got $2, one from Hans Moleman and the other that he sent himself....
Way way WAY more than three. Most of 'em have been from the RNC. These guys are blowing some serious money in Ohio.
Join the 18% of Americans without a land line and you won't get any calls from Bush/Cheney or any from the pollsters. My house is quiet when I get home from work -- just the way I like it.
Okay, then I am not the only one. Every single call I have gotten has been from Bush or some splinter GOP group. I was curious if my number was in their databank or something.
1. An assemblyman from a neighboring district called to tell me to vote for a city council candidate that I already was going to vote for.
0. I am one of this new group of voters known as "College Students with No Land line." I love my cell phone. That and I'm pretty sure nobody is calling anyone in Alabama anyhow.
I thought the same thing. BTW, I hesitate to say with certainty that 100% of the calls have been from Goopers, but I can't recall the DNC calling even once. Laura Bush and Ed Gillespie have both left messages on my machine! I did, however, get a mailing from the Democrats with a sample ballot for Greene County.
BTW, my dad - who is a lifelong gov't employee working for the Air Force - is big-time anti-Bush. One of his buddies at work actually photoshopped my dad into a photo of Kerry and sent it thru the mail. My mother almost threw it out (thinking it was just another piece of political junk mail), when she noticed that the guy standing there with Kerry looked awfully familiar.
I've gotten one so far - wasn't home but the left a voice mail. It was a woman in my neighborhood who gave her name AND ADDRESS before encouraging me to get out and vote for Kerry. I thought that was a little wierd, but maybe it's a strategy to try and localize the race and make it a little more personal. In the last election after the Wellstone plane crash I got recorded calls from Walter Mondale, Norm Coleman, Ted Kennedy, and a couple other national heavyweight type politicians. Haven't gotten one of those yet this year, but I imagine they're coming soon.
I got calls from Oscar de la Hoya before his last two PPV fights. I did get a call at work from some guy asking me to help pay/donate for an ad that was to run in some "national" newspaper (NYtimes maybe) where Bush would list a quote from me (made up by them) saying how I was in favor of his policies in regards to small businesses. Thankfully, just as I am finishing my basement, I got two pictures of Bush and Laura on the ranch. Wow, my dart game has improved! Thanks Bush!
One, from a moderate-conservative Republican (Steve Poizner), who's running for assembly against a Berkeley-style lib (Ira Ruskin). Won't get one for president race here in HighCal.
The Firefighters' Union called me today to encourage me to vote for Christine Gregoire (D) for Governor, Patty Murray (D) for Senate, and John Kerry. I was gonna vote for all of them anyway, but now I'm doing it for a cause! Or something.
Being the single deciding vote in this election, I get calls all the time. Between AFLette and myself, we've probably gotten at least twenty so far. Now granted, some of those were probably for loval elections as well, but I erase the message as soon as it starts into who they are and never bother who exactly they want either of us to vote for.
Just got another one - this time from a local volunteer "calling on behalf of the President". I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know the number on caller ID.
2 a day for the past few days. and those are just the ones that leave messages because i don't answer my phone. ****ing Ohio.