Stop calling me!!!

roger

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roger
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Here in Colorado we are being called a minimum of 10 times a day by political robot callers. Here's a crazy thought: if my mind was going to be made up by a prerecorded message, probably one of the last 100 calls I've received would have already made up my mind. You can stop now.
 
Yes. I really can't wait for this election to end, it has become quite annoying.
 
We stopped answering our land-line weeks ago because of this...OK, truth be told, we stopped answering our home phone for the most part years ago because of solicitors and the relative inefficacy of the Do Not Call List.

I'm just glad that they haven't been dialing our cell phones (so far).
 
For me is not answering the phone doesn't solve the nuisance of deleting about 10 political messages when I get home from work.
 
I've been stuck at home for most of the last two days, and I've gotten twenty-five robo calls. All of them for McCain. The last five actually had the ID blocked, which means they paid extra money for that.

Here's a hint for the campaign robo call writers:

Virginia is not the place to parade endorsements from Yankee politicians. No, we do not like that the mayor of New York City endorses you. We are Southern. The endorsement of the mayor of the Yankiest city in all of Yankeeland is not a point in your favor here. We'd actually be more receptive to endorsements by foreigners, or even Californians!

And this is the biggest military area in the country. We have like ten military bases here. The phrase "big government" doesn't scare us here. We like big government. Our entire local economy depends on big government. My livelihood in civilian healthcare isn't directly dependent on the military presence....but it sure as heck is dependent on Medicare.
 
Oh, and the last one invited me to "a victory celebration for President McCain"....um, chickens before their hatched? Bridges before they're crossed? That sort of thing sounds like either the most overweening hubris....or the most pathetic desperation. It's certainly not attractive at all.
 
roger said:
Here in Colorado we are being called a minimum of 10 times a day by political robot callers. Here's a crazy thought: if my mind was going to be made up by a prerecorded message, probably one of the last 100 calls I've received would have already made up my mind. You can stop now.
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Try living in Ohio right now. It's like a fifth grade name calling match with phone lines obnoxiously ringing of the hook every half hour.
 
SirPhilip said:
Try living in Ohio right now. It's like a fifth grade name calling match with phone lines obnoxiously ringing of the hook every half hour.
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Yes, I can imagine you have it worse than us. It seems that the calls have been slowing down here, I guess the battlegrounds have shifted.
 
I'm not so much getting the Presidential calls, I'm getting the state and local calls flooding in.
 
I've gotten the occasional text message on my cell phone >:-( If there was any way to opt out of receiving text messages, I would, because so far all I've received is spam.
 
https://www.donotcall.gov/

I moved three months ago and got a new number. On the very day the phone was hooked up I got telemarketer calls. Not one. Two. On the next day I got three. That was it. I signed up with the national do not call register and less than 30 days later the calls started to decline.

It doesn't gurantee to stop these kinds of calls but I don't get them. Nothing.

Try it.
 
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