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>> Without those “pesky” automated phone calls to turn out their base, the GOP will be flattened come November ‘16.
I don’t buy Towery’s rationale.
I don’t know of ANYONE, old or young, who listens to robocalls all the way through. They have been so abused already that they’re totally ineffective. They give the impression that the caller doesn’t even think enough of the recipient to have a flesh and blood person call. In my experience, that REALLY turns off old peeps, who crave a human being (like their child, f’rinstance) calling them to talk.
On the other hand, losing robocalls may force members of the lazy-stupid party (that would be the GOP) to get off their butts and formulate OTHER ways to reach EVERYONE (including the old and the young). So rather than harming them, it might even help GOP in 2016.
I hate that robocall crap. I’d love to see it dealt a death blow — the sooner, the better.
If caller ID comes up “Unavailable,” that makes two of us.
If they can get Rachel from credit card service and that guy pushing Life Alert from calling me daily, it is worth it.
That isn’t a solution, the phone still rings, you still have to take it out and check it, and then you still have to check the messages and remove them.
There are many people who spend the majority of the time handling their phone, dealing with pest calls.
I thought 1.) There already is a “do not call” list and 2.) it’s about as effective as anything else the gov’t does. Which is to say, it’s not. I’ve gotta believe that people who are so bored and have so much free time that they answer telephone calls from numbers they don’t recognize must mostly be Democrats.
First off, I don’t even bother to answer my land line.
Secondly, I don’t find myself particularly concerned with whether or not the GOP wins or loses in 2016, because it doesn’t make any difference at all.
My Panasonic base unit has a call block feature so why do we need a new law?
Solution: Don’t answer calls from numbers you don’t recognize
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You’d be surprised at the number of people who just can’t resist picking up the phone if it rings, no matter if they recognize the number or not. Some folks (elderly, with Alzheimers, dementia, etc.) also will answer the phone when they shouldn’t. Then, you have the crooks who call multiple times a day and bug the heck out of you every time the phone rings.
THIS works like a charm .... we got one 2 years ago and it’s the best $100 I’ve ever spent.
I do not buy this at all.
I don’t like the sound of this. It could cock up polling, leaving us with no idea who’s winning.
But everyone who isn’t a retard knows what day the election is, so I’m not worried about that.
“Democratic strategists have maintained that they own the world of social media, “
Our side is too busy poo-pooing that stuff and bragging about how old their computers are. So in a sense, they are totally right.
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Yes, the old are not on Twitter, Instagram and Vine and don’t watch You Tube videos much.
However, Foxnews is on in the background and foreground, most waking hours.
How does blocking “Polling” conflate with Get out the Vote efforts?
The problem in this information age is that the increased use of cell phones has made any type of polling more difficult and using focus groups to try and gauge things isn't going to work either.
The days of polls being conducted by calling people on the old land line is slowly going the way of the Dodo bird, and it's skewed in that only a older segment of the population still relies on land line phones. My Father, for example, is 91 and went exclusively to a cell phone.
Does he think that the GOP has an advantage with Robo calling? Every anecdote I have ever heard is how Dems abuse it especially push polling.
Not sure what to think. But if the Dim controlled FCC is in favor of it then I will reflexively oppose it.
I want to know how the robo-calls manage to keep the phone connection even if I hang up on them. Hang up and then pick up the phone a few minutes later and the damn robo-call is still going strong and I can’t call out until they finish.