>> 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.
“I don’t know of ANYONE, old or young, who listens to robocalls all the way through.”
They annoy. But they turn out voters. No doubt about that at all.
Good, let it make the GOP have a great field organization down to the very last precinct.
Make them knock on doors and drive their elderly neighbors to the polls.
I don’t really see the news here. My phone company, CenturyLink, already lets us block up to 100 numbers. The trouble is sort of that many robocallers, Ben Carson has been the worst lately, use multiple numbers, that are never identified as other than toll free. So you don’t want to waste a bunch of “blocks” on numbers that won’t be around for long.
But caller ID pretty much fixes that. I never pick up un-identified numbers. Then I set my own phone to trip them out after the first ring. Sure saves me a lot of footsteps.
$50K fine and 6 months in jail for all executives of any firm anywhere using these.
And that’s for the first offense. Flaying alive would suit me fine for the second.