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Presidential Campaigns Employing Robocallers

by Lee Bains on October 20, 2008 at 11:29 AM



With November 4th rapidly approaching, the McCain-Palin campaign has ratcheted up the number of automated phone calls going out to potential voters.

According to Shaun Dakin, a Virginian "anti-robocall activist," the McCain campaign is currently issuing 12 automated telephone campaigns, while the Obama camp is only conducting four. The Republican candidate's phone-intensive politicking is, no doubt, an attempt to offset his rival's extensive television (and video game) campaign.

One recording of an automated McCain message, posted on Textually.org, reveals the Republican campaign's attempts to intimately link Barack Obama to William Ayers, a Chicago education theorist and founding member of the now-defunct Weather Underground.

Regardless of the campaign organizers' accuracy in making such allegations, they should know better than to throw themselves into the telephone arena. Nobody -- Republican, Democrat or independent -- likes to have their supper interrupted by telemarketers. [From: Wired.com via Textually.org]

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