View Full Version : Election season is upon us
tmleadr03
10-05-2014, 15:12
I can tell because my phone is lighting up with surveys about it. Anyone else? Or did one of you give my number out to mess with me?
The advantage of not having a landline :)
tmleadr03
10-05-2014, 15:50
The advantage of not having a landline :)
It's my damn cell phone they are calling.
Speaking of landline. I was actually looking around the house for a jack. Couldn't find one. LOL.
Our apartment has like 3 phone jacks in every room, but they've all got partially wired CAT5e network cable going to them.
TEAMRICO
10-05-2014, 16:04
Mailbox filling with flyers.
Save your money repubs, I'm voting for ya!
At least when my wife changed from Independent to Republican we stopped getting Dem flyers!
The only way someone wouldn't know it was election season is if they didn't have a TV, a landline and a mailbox. All three are full at my house.
Great-Kazoo
10-05-2014, 16:58
IF YOU DON'T VOTE, OUR PAC'S WILL RUN ELECTION PROPAGANDA TILL 2016.
LET THE TEXTING BEGIN...........................
SamuraiCO
10-05-2014, 17:04
Once a week I have to remove voice mail or hang ups on my land line. Been averaging 10 to 20 per week.
The advantage of not having a landline :)
Amen, but I get blasted by emails...........................
I turned off the answering machine on my land line, a sales call rings 4 times, a political calls will ring and ring and ring like 20 or 30 times before it hangs up. Not getting too many calls on the cellular....yet.
I'm a registered R yet I still get lying BS (D) flyers. From the (D) flyers I can determine that the (D) doesn't know jack about economics, has no concern for the rule of law, does not care about the citizens, and the (D) live in a mythical fantasy land.
Except if your cell number was an old landline. When I got a cell phone, I ended my landline and kept that number for the cell.
sabot_round
10-05-2014, 18:45
My question is...Why are they wasting campaign funds on a fucking poll??? Has anyone posted that question to them fellas??
SR
The advantage of not having a landline :)
My wife and I both got hit up on our cell phones.
"Am I speaking to a registered voter in Colorado?"
"What?"
"Am I speaking to a registered voter in Colorado?"
"It's none of your damn business! Leave me alone and take my number off of your list!"
Aloha_Shooter
10-05-2014, 22:25
The cold calls usually annoy me but the push polls from Udall's contractors at MRS are so obvious that I've decided I like completely demoralizing the Socialists by taking the poll and letting them know NONE of their bogus agitprop points are effective.
Aloha_Shooter
10-05-2014, 22:28
My question is...Why are they wasting campaign funds on a fucking poll??? Has anyone posted that question to them fellas??
These are push polls. The point isn't really to collect your opinion, it's to plant the seeds of their agitprop lies about Gardner's extremism, anti-woman stance, favoritism to Big Oil, etc. By asking whether "XXXXX" is effective, they plant their words in your mind so that when the weak-minded fill out their ballot, they have all the lies sitting at the forefront of their minds. Udall hasn't cared what you or I thought since he was elected, he's not really going to start now.
wctriumph
10-06-2014, 01:23
We get several per day. The wife will not answer the phone and I take maybe three surveys per week in the evening.
My poor TV remote has been getting over time use, every time political add comes on, I simply chge. the channel. Matter of fact, been skipping the local channels more lately than normal, just so that I can get away from the constant barrage of political adds.
For the life of me, I can't believe Udall and the Dems. are so single issue. Women must really get the shaft around every corner, because that's all he talks about. Women's right to choose, equal health care for women, women this and women that. I guess if they can just get the women to the polls, they expect to win.
If he's done so good for Colo., I'd think he could point out the good that's he's done. Maybe brag about Obama Care and how his vote helped get it for all of us. I mean, all you hear is how good Obama Care is for the nation, but yet not one word about it from Udall.
Bailey Guns
10-06-2014, 07:47
The cold calls usually annoy me but the push polls from Udall's contractors at MRS are so obvious that I've decided I like completely demoralizing the Socialists by taking the poll and letting them know NONE of their bogus agitprop points are effective.
I rarely get cold calls on polls or any other calls related to candidates I don't agree with. All of the calls I get are asking for support, or polling about, republican candidates. Maybe the left-leaning polling companies have a "do not call" list of people that annoy them. I must be on the list.
I haven't got any calls from anybody. Lots of mailings, one liberal college girl from boulder who got a quick education and my wife felt sorry for her since I lectured her for 5 minutes. Other than that it's been pretty quiet
I don't get calls... I must be on some kind of do-not-call list. I would really like to have some Boulder hippy call and ask me my opinion on women's issues, then I can incredulously ask "Wait, women's suffrage is still going on? Jesus, the DeLorian works!"
Aloha_Shooter
10-06-2014, 09:34
Well, the one I got last night went sort of like this:
Q: Are you a Republican, Democrat, or Independent?
A: Independent.
Q: Are you very conservative, slightly conservative, moderate, slightly liberal, or liberal?
A: Moderate (in terms of the historic political spectrum -- I added to myself)
Q: Do you trust Cory Gardner?
A: Somewhat
Q: Do you trust Mark Udall?
A: Not a damned bit.
Q: Has Cory Gardner attacked President Obama too much with <blah blah blah blah>?
A: Nope.
Q: Has Mark Udall supported President Obama not enough, slightly not enough, just right, slightly too much, too much?
A: Way too much.
Q: How effective do you feel the following are as campaign issues? <whole list of talking points about how Gardner is supposedly too extreme, out of touch, etc.>
A: Non-effective, waste of time, etc. on each one of them.
I could almost see the poor Udall campaign workers getting those responses and pulling their hair out trying to figure out what they could do.
I could almost see the poor Udall campaign workers getting those responses and pulling their hair out trying to figure out what they could do.
Here's an idea for them to follow through with... have Mr. Udall withdraw. Of course, that would require humility and honesty.
tmleadr03
10-06-2014, 17:01
Well, the one I got last night went sort of like this:
Q: Are you a Republican, Democrat, or Independent?
A: Independent.
Q: Are you very conservative, slightly conservative, moderate, slightly liberal, or liberal?
A: Moderate (in terms of the historic political spectrum -- I added to myself)
Q: Do you trust Cory Gardner?
A: Somewhat
Q: Do you trust Mark Udall?
A: Not a damned bit.
Q: Has Cory Gardner attacked President Obama too much with <blah blah blah blah>?
A: Nope.
Q: Has Mark Udall supported President Obama not enough, slightly not enough, just right, slightly too much, too much?
A: Way too much.
Q: How effective do you feel the following are as campaign issues? <whole list of talking points about how Gardner is supposedly too extreme, out of touch, etc.>
A: Non-effective, waste of time, etc. on each one of them.
I could almost see the poor Udall campaign workers getting those responses and pulling their hair out trying to figure out what they could do.
They really are not conducting polls, they are trying to sway public opinion with leading questions.
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