Peculiar automated phone call this afternoon: " Do you plan to vote?

[havocmom]

Nov 7th?"

I reply, "Oh, you bet I do!"

Stern voice: "You will be contacted again."

What the fuck? They playing the Winning through intimidation card now?

:wtf:

[wakeme2008]

1. They didn't ask you who you were going to vote for

Mmmmmmm

[yourout]

3. They already know our political leanings from....

gleaning all of our purchase info and a variety of other data mining.

[havocmom]

9. HA! I fooled them. Don't have money for anything but food

and bits of cloth.

[havocmom]

7. Nope, Just if I was going to vote

Very stern male voice recording.

Too bad for them - male authority figures don't do it for me. :rofl:

[Land Shark]

2. Document this. If it's intimidation, state law probably provides you the

legal right to record it. In one party states, any call can be recorded. This is likely vote suppression by somebody.

[rurallib]

6. Like they care about laws and such crap.

[havocmom]

8. Good point. Guess I have to dig that little recorder up outta the desk

Interesting point, in my county, I am one of less than a dozen registered DEMS. We could hold meetings in an old VW bug.

And I have been pretty active about pointing out the various transgressions of Conrad Burns. Bad bad havocmom ;)

[rox63]

4. If I don't recognize the number, I let them leave a message

Caller ID is beautiful thing.

[rurallib]

5. "We know where you live!"

[havocmom]

11. That was the message I got too

Did a chill go down my spine?

:rofl:

They picked the wrong old battle axe to try that intimidation crap on!

[originalpckelly]

10. Next time: "I know what you did last election year."NT

[applegrove]

12. By implying you might not vote..they are trying to get you to stay home?

The assumption is you may not vote. Cause you know..you don't have to if you don't want to.

The stern voice is for those that say "yes". Bad dem. Bad, bad Dem.

[KharmaTrain]

13. It Might Be A Democrat

The problem with phone polling and solicitation now is many numbers are either fax or data lines or cellphones that aren't being used. Random dialing, which used to be a common method, is a lot more difficult and more expensive now. Many campaigns buy phone liest from various sources and then turn them over to a polling organization or phone bank that is in another city or state. My bets are that call was just to see if you were a live body as opposed to running into squeals or an automated answering machine. Making random calls today is a major waste of money...thus a short call like that saves them the time and money and gives a live body information they can follow up on.

I'd be more suspect if you got a call where there was a live voice who started to ask your voting preferences without taking basic demographic information (age, sex, religion) and just launches into "questions". It appears the Swift Boaters are very active in push polling this year (TPM has stories about it) and itsa technique that has been proven to supress voters who get spooked by the calls.

Hopefully it's a legit campaign just updating a list..and I even hope its a Democrat since that means someone's reaching out to you and that your vote means something.

Cheers...

[havocmom]

14. WAY to stern/authoritarian for DEM call

If just to update a list, it would be GOP call. DEMS are few and far between where I live. We can hold county party meetings in an old VW Bug - seriously.

Get a lot of calls from NRA and groups like that just due to the area demographics. I like to play along a bit just to hear what their latest campaign is. ;)