Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Telephone Assault
Super Tuesday is now over. All those 24 or so states that vote in a ballotstorm on this one day in February, which is exactly 1/4 of the way from one Election Day to the Next. So now what's left? John McCain will win the Republican nomination, but it is not clear whether he will do so with a 2/3 mandate that is needed to hold on to Lichtman Key 2. Delegates are a virtual tie between Obama and Clinton, 838-834 in favor of Obama. So now the remaining states decide the nominations.
One of these is Virginia, my home state. That primary is next week, and people will be looking to see what the trends are from Virginia, DC, and Maryland, the primary states of 2008 February 12. So I know what I can expect, now. An assault of calls of all sorts from the political camps. I have complained in the past about computer calling, and if such calling occurs for a candidate, it will indicate insincerity on the part of that candidate. I prefer a person-to-person call, and I prefer calls that call for me to vote for such and such over those that call for money.
So far today, I have received two calls. One was from the Democratic Committee. It wanted me to contribute to a fund to elect Democratic candidates. Well maybe there are Democrats I don't want to see elected, and indeed Hillary Clinton is one of those Democrats. And I don't want to contribute money, since the cases of Romney and Huckabee show that money does not mean that much. But yet this phonehound kept haranging me and asking me to contribute something, and I told him that if he kept doing that, I might vote Republican. Then he hung up.
The second was from the campaign of John McCain. It was a computerized call. If you already had not found that Bomb Bomb McCain is not the best of candidates, this will clinch it. It itemized all the things that McCain would do as President; however, these things want me to vote against him instead. It concluded with a telephone number that went by so quickly that I could not record any ofit. That is one problem with these computer calls. You can't call back or even repeat the message. Fortunately I was able to find the full number on Google and find someone else who had gotten the same call. (Note that I had to get a Google cached copy, since the original site griped about my not having an account.) The number is 703-650-5646. If you get a call like this, call this number and leave a message. Maybe leave two or three messages. These candidates have to learn that this technique is not acceptable.
I wonder how many calls like this I will get between now and February 12.
One of these is Virginia, my home state. That primary is next week, and people will be looking to see what the trends are from Virginia, DC, and Maryland, the primary states of 2008 February 12. So I know what I can expect, now. An assault of calls of all sorts from the political camps. I have complained in the past about computer calling, and if such calling occurs for a candidate, it will indicate insincerity on the part of that candidate. I prefer a person-to-person call, and I prefer calls that call for me to vote for such and such over those that call for money.
So far today, I have received two calls. One was from the Democratic Committee. It wanted me to contribute to a fund to elect Democratic candidates. Well maybe there are Democrats I don't want to see elected, and indeed Hillary Clinton is one of those Democrats. And I don't want to contribute money, since the cases of Romney and Huckabee show that money does not mean that much. But yet this phonehound kept haranging me and asking me to contribute something, and I told him that if he kept doing that, I might vote Republican. Then he hung up.
The second was from the campaign of John McCain. It was a computerized call. If you already had not found that Bomb Bomb McCain is not the best of candidates, this will clinch it. It itemized all the things that McCain would do as President; however, these things want me to vote against him instead. It concluded with a telephone number that went by so quickly that I could not record any ofit. That is one problem with these computer calls. You can't call back or even repeat the message. Fortunately I was able to find the full number on Google and find someone else who had gotten the same call. (Note that I had to get a Google cached copy, since the original site griped about my not having an account.) The number is 703-650-5646. If you get a call like this, call this number and leave a message. Maybe leave two or three messages. These candidates have to learn that this technique is not acceptable.
I wonder how many calls like this I will get between now and February 12.
