Did you receive political phone calls?

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

My dad in AZ says he got some from real people, very polite, all asking him to vote dem, and for Pedersen, which he did:

A good sign I think is that I have 2-3 calls a day soliciting my vote. Every one has been from the dems. Do the dems have a better get out the vote system than the reps? I'm registered rep so maybe the reps feel I'm a safe vote for them. My callers have been very polite with an urging to vote dem. I was happy to have so many calls, indicating there are lots of precinct workers

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. none

The joys of not having a phone! :bounce:

[jesus_of_suburbia]

2. I have had tons

I live in TN.... many calls for both Ford and Corker.

I never tell the Corker people that I'm a Democrat, because I want them to
waste their phone call on me.

[Libby2]

8. Same here !!

I enjoyed telling them off.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

13. What did you say?

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Got one last night.

We'll see how many we get tonight.

[Yogi]

4. I thought I might....

get some here in Ohio but I didn't.

[Blue Diadem]

11. Really? We got numerous, sometimes within minutes of each other

Right now I have 10 messages on the machine from letting it pick up the calls..and that doesn't count the ones I've already deleted or the ones I answered. At one point, my DH was speaking to one of our candidates campaign canvassers who was at our door, while the phone was ringing with them asking for our support.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

14. was the guy at the door a rep or dem?

[Blue Diadem]

15. a dem n/t

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

16. dems sound like they were very well organized this election year

I'm so glad to hear this.

[Blue Diadem]

17. I was glad too.

The calls that drove me nuts were the "issue" calls.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

20. What are they?

[Blue Diadem]

29. gambling/college education issue, 2 smoking issues, minimum wage change

Of course, every call we got on those were computerized.

[focusfan]

5. Nope I have caller ID and don`t answer 800 service or

unknown name and number or anyone that I don`t want to talk to.

[Coventina]

6. Call me crazy, but I've LOVED the calls!

The live ones, the robo ones....I love them all!!

Why?

Because it means that AZ is now a BATTLEGROUND STATE!

No longer solidly, safely red!

:woohoo:

I'm going to miss the excitement when it's all over.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

7. Has McCain lost his touch w/the seniors?

I think he can kiss his presidential asperations adios.

[Coventina]

9. Sadly, no. McCain is still God incarnate around here.

And probably will be until he retires.

But Kyl showed to be unexpectedly vulnerable as did JD "Asshat" Hayworth.

Win or lose, the Republican party is going to have to rethink the future.

And that, in itself, is a victory.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Not one.

I was hoping to be polled. I LOVE answering political polls!

[Imalittleteapot]

12. Big Dawg called yesterday asking me

to vote for Chris Bell for Governor - Texas.

[spartan61]

18. I am a real person and I have been doing the calling for the past

3 days. Called 360 people on my list and I have to say that most everyone was polite and cordial. I'm totally amazed at how many people already voted/were going to vote. This election is very important to Democrats and they know it. That's why I feel the turnout will be great and we will see a change in this rubber stamp Congress.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

21. May I be the first to say

that you totally rock!! Thank you so so much for your help.

[Neecy]

19. Not many...

I've only been called on a ballet proposition, but for some reason my nephew has been on some kind of hotlist for both parties (he's a registered Democrat).

For about a month my sister's phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from both McCaskill and Talent. This is her standard script when a Talent worker calls:

Repuke: Hello, is Rick home?
Sister: No. He's attending Mizzou. He doesn't live here.
Repuke: Is this his mother?
Sister: Yes.
Repuke: Can we count on your support for Jim Talent?
Sister: (Bursts out laughing) Um....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. (click)

They never seem to cross him off of any lists, and in the last week the calls have really gotten bad. She LOVES the Talent calls, though, just so she can laugh into the phone at them.

[Sequoia]

22. Clint Eastwood (Saturday) and Robert Redford (today)

But it was recorded.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

30. Who or what does Clint favor?

[Sequoia]

37. I was too excited to notice.

[Lochloosa]

23. Several recorded calls from Davis in Florida.

And the local Democratic Party made a live call last night.

[Nimrod2005]

24. I am a real person and I have been making these calls!

I am very nice too...

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

31. Thanks for your help, Nimrod.

[Left Is Write]

25. Lots and lots of them.

[seabeyond]

26. none for over a week, all automated (i hate) all repug. tx n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

27. I've had probably 20+ calls and all but two

were robocalls. The two that were live people were both for democrats.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

32. It's great so many dems phonebanked

very Americana.

[demgurl]

28. I have received a bunch of political phone calls.

I think there have been about 10 Republican versus one Democratic phone call. Let them waste their time, I voted Democratic.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

33. robocalls or real people?

[demgurl]

38. Robocalls. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

34. No. But, . . .

. . .we have privacy manager, and if they're not revealing themselves, they can't get through. But, if they're listed on the system, the CID would show up. And, i haven't seen any thing like that. And i know i haven't talked to anyone.
The Professor

[adreamer]

35. Got a call from Bill Clinton this morning...

I live in Missouri. Dems are very organized here this year. Live in St. Louis county. For the first time ever I had the Democrats call and ask if we needed a ride to the polls and also got a real live person calling from my husband's union reminding us to vote. Plus plenty of robocalls, dem and rep. On the stupid side, we've gotten two phone calls from Kit Bond, our repub senator, that started out "hello Susan, this is kit bond", there is no Susan that lives here and we've lived here over twenty years.
On the local news at noon they said expectations were that there would be a 70% turnout today in the county and a record was set for early voting in the midterms. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[tpsbmam]

36. Yes and no.....

Yes to robocalls.....from the NRCC. I filed a FCC complaint. They're legal in NC BUT we got up to 4 a day (harassing) and (a) the NRCC was identified at the end of the call, not the beginning (illegal) and no phone number for the NRCC or the company that made the calls was provided (illegal).

No to calls from Democrats, but we made calls and hosted calling parties. Most of the lists that we worked from were pretty tailored, which was great. They were designed to skip people like me -- that fact that I will vote and which way I'll vote is pretty assured. They tried to tailor the lists to catch those folks who were less likely to vote and/or who were more likely to be undecided.

My neighbors (Dems) were called MANY times yesterday by both parties. There weren't registered to vote -- I pestered them until they registered and they both voted. They were new voters so they were targeted by everyone. (I think they wanted to kill me last night. LOL) The last call they got was at 9:30 last night! Naturally it was from Republicans. The husband was sooooooooooooo pissed off at that point he said, "I'm going to find the name of a gay Muslim to write in." The idiot on the other end of the phone said there wasn't anyone like that running. At that point my neighbor said, "Look. Get this: I will NOT vote for any Republican now or in the foreseeable future" and he hung up.

Keeping EVERYTHING crossed!