Republicans Rain Negative Automated Calls on Voters in Swing States

[Liberal_in_LA]

Republicans Rain Negative Automated Calls on Voters in Swing States

By PATRICK HEALY and JO BECKER

Published: October 17, 2008

Voters in at least 10 swing states are receiving hundreds of thousands of automated telephone calls — uniformly negative and sometimes misleading — that the Republican Party and the McCain campaign are financing this week as they struggle to keep more states from drifting into the Democratic column.

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The Minnesota Democrat, Christopher Shoff, a commissioner in Freeborn County, said the automated call described Mr. Obama as putting “Hollywood above America” because he attended a fund-raiser in Beverly Hills hours after the federal government seized control of the insurance giant American International Group. The call was first reported by The Huffington Post.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/politics/18robo.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. most people hate robo calls

let's see if this backfires!

[Robbien]

2. Robo calls usually make people sick of the election process thus don't go and vote

This is the first time in over a decade that almost all Dems are excited about voting for someone instead of just going out and voting against the other guy. Robo hate calls don't work in this situation.