Politicians Should Be Judicious With the Robocalls

[mabfan]

We've been getting a lot of robocalls at home for the US Senate race. Although I'm registered as a Democrat, Nomi is registered as independent (in Massachusetts the official designation is Unenrolled, since we have an Independent Party), and consequently we get a lot of calls from Republican candidates as well as Democrats.

It's pretty much a given that I'll be voting for Martha Coakley, although I like much of what Joe Kennedy, the Libertarian candidate, has to say. Kennedy hasn't been robocalling, probably because he doesn't have the money, and I honestly can't remember the last robocall we got from Coakley.

But Scott Brown has been calling quite a bit, and my wife has finally had enough of the robocalls from Scott Brown.

Memo to all politicians: some of your constituents have six-month twin daughters at home that need their naps.

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

I don't see why a robocall is more annoying than a live call. The only time I get annoyed by robocallers is when they expect me to hold for a live person, or else ask me to call a number. No. If you want to talk to me, be there when I answer the phone, or at least by the time your robot finishes the standard greeting. You called me, remember, so you're the one who wants to tell me something, not the other way around. I may be very interested in what you have to say, but without knowing what it is I'm not interested in waiting for you to pick up, and I'm certainly not interested in calling you back. But ordinary robocallers that just give you a message and hang up? Not only don't they bother me, but I don't understand why others object to them. Gnomi's objection is to the noise they make, which live callers make too.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Oops Un-italics.