[C210N]

As much as I dislike Robney, I think this is standard fare for a phone bank of any candidate. The callers, either in the phone bank or distributed, work from the phone list. If an answering machine picks up, the live person presses a key to put the call in the queue to get a standard recording - typically from the candidate. What is a bit disingenuous is the wording perhaps, but the candidate script is written to somewhat personalize the message.

[Jedidah]

We worked Missouri during the final week of the ‘04 election, St. Louis County. Ran a phone bank with live people, volunteers, made literally thousands of calls. We used no recordings whatsoever, only neighbors talking to neighbors.

It worked well. Bush carried Missouri, and we did well across the board.

[DJ Frisat]

"As much as I dislike Robney, I think this is standard fare for a phone bank of any candidate. The callers, either in the phone bank or distributed, work from the phone list. If an answering machine picks up, the live person presses a key to put the call in the queue to get a standard recording - typically from the candidate."

Sure, I understand that. But the candidate should be playing a generic message, not one saying 'Hey, I tried to call you so you could ask me questions!'

That's an insult to my intelligence.