Re: [MLUG] Door-to-Door Vote Begging

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Since the subject of robo-campaigning sort of fits here, it occurs to me 
that some of you may have worked on such projects and be "in-the-know":

is there a genuine feeling in the industry that robocalls for politics, 
or anything else, accomplish anything besides annoying people?

I always vote. Sometimes left, sometimes right, it depends. I have come 
close to voting against candidates I actually supported, or at least 
abstaining, when I've received a barrage of stupid calls from 
him/her...always during dinner or when we're trying to get the kids to 
sleep, it seems.

Not being one to pass up the cynically obvious, could it be the calls 
are secretly made by the opposition, to piss people off? (I am willing 
to bet it happens)

Happy Tuesday,
Dave

Jennifer Dozar wrote:
> That happens here in Nevada. I got a visit from some one representing
> the Democratic party asking for that stuff. I told her to go away in a
> semi-nice way. I am about to vote republican on EVERYTHING out here just
> to piss off the freakin nutty democrats out here. and like most of my
> boyfriend's friends! hehehe. I hate politics! 
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:33:03AM -0500, Jonathan King wrote:
> > On 11/4/06, Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > > So I'm home this afternoon...my wife had run to the store and our twin
> > > 16-month old boys were taking a much-needed nap.
> > >
> > > And the doorbell rings...
> > Ouch; so this situation sounds very sucky.
> >
> > But, that said, IF political campaigns are going to contact me, I
> > would prefer they do so by a face-to-face meeting. This might be just
> > me, but I hang-up on any kind of phone call, toss mail unread, and
> > delete any political email sent to me from a campaign. We essentially
> > don't watch TV, so I'm blissfully unaware of the political
> > advertisements there. But if anybody ever knocks on my door, I at
> > least open it and start to hear what they said. And I do that because
> > somebody coming to your door (and 2000 others) has made a far more
> > significant committment to whatever it is that they are pushing, and I
> > know that if *I* ever had to raise support for some cause I was
> > passionate about, door-to-door canvassing is what I would do. I'm
> > basically okay with retail politics (or prosylitzing, for that
> > matter).
> >
> > That said, I expect at maximum only one visit per candidate per cycle
> > at a maximum (which was what we got in Columbia). If you're getting
> > multiple visits from Talent's people or anybody else, that seems kind
> > of inappropriate, unless you asked them to come back.
> >
> > jking
> >
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