Political phone calls

[tenaya]

In the last 24 hours, we've had 5 calls from John McCain, and none from anyone else. I live in David Dryer's district so, it's heavily Republican here, so I suppose that's why there's no Democratic calls. It's odd, though. I would have thought ol' Money Bags Romney would be hitting us hard, too.

Comments

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity. What do they say in these calls? They don't do it here.

[deej1957.livejournal.com]

We got a couple for Clinton, but that's been it, and those were a couple weeks ago. We may get slammed monday night.

I'm still waffling. Obama or Clinton. I probably won't know for sure until I actually make my mark.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

My number is unlisted and unpublished and I still received some of those calls last time. I was so unbelievably pissed.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

All of them are prerecorded messages.

Three were asking who I would vote for, and then who was my second choice. It ended with "paid for McCain for President."

The next one was a personal endorsement from someone I didn't know. He went on about what a wonderful person McCain was.

Another one was McCain himself explaining his priorities; he wants victory in Irag, will appoint only very conservative judges to the Supreme Court (that is code for getting rid of a woman's right to have an abortion), no new taxes.... Stuff like that.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I think quite a few people are doing that.

I think I'm flip flopping on the Indian casino thing. I was gonna vote yes, but then I just saw a thing on the news where this gets California 18% of the net profits from gambling, while states like Florida get something like 50%. Big difference.

I was listening to the radio while in the car last night and they played a clip of Obama's wife slamming Hillary at UCLA. I really did not appreciate her language.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Well, what are you gonna do? We just kept the phone close, joked about the calls and are thankful this won't last more than a couple of days.

[margec01.livejournal.com]

Having just been in your state and listening to all those ads, I found it interesting that the Vegas casinos were supposedly paying for many of the anti-gaming ads. (Kill that competition!)

18% is a very good "take" for the state, and allows the casinos to give better odds to the poor gambler. Pennsylvania's new casinos also take 50% and the payback percentages to the players are absolutely awful! So they lose quickly and don't bother to return. It's a case of killing the goose--it's better to take 18% of more revenue.

On the other hand, there are many gamblers who just go to the casinos expecting to lose their $50, or $100, or whatever. And they do.

[margec01.livejournal.com]

I got a call today from Huckabee--eeewwwwww! I might still be dithering over who I AM voting for, but religious fanatics are a no-no in my book. He and Romney can go hang as far as I'm concerned!

And yes, both my sisters are very religious, so I'm just offsetting one of them--but they're in Pennsylvania and my vote counts tomorrow. (g)

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Scream? Cry? Not vote for anyone who calls? *g*

ETA: I don't pick up. I never answer my phone...well, pretty much never. *g* I let the answering machine get it no matter who it is, unless I know it's toolman calling and I recognize his number.