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Election ads, email, phonecalls

occasionalrain — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:42:40 GMT

When it's over, can't be too soon, will the feeling of something missing replace them?

I'm thinking we should vote for the candidates who have bothered us the least, the ones with the fewest tv ads, robo calls, and emails. After all they would owe fewer favors to contributors.

Anyone onboard?

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DoneTryin — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:44:51 GMT

Then there wouldn't be anyone to vote for. LOL! I did find out that voting will make the phone calls go away. The only thing we can do about the tv commercials is to turn it off, put it on mute, or change the channel. Just a few more days & it'll be over, for 2 years at least.

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sylviahomeatlast — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:45:20 GMT

I look to see who's calling, if it's a zip code I don't know or an unknown number, I pick up and then hang up. I don't want those calls on my answering machine.

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straykatz — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:49:29 GMT

I heard on the news the other night that it could be months - January before we have all the final results for this election....especially the close ones.

I plan to vote for the one that had the least obnoxious ads on TV. Not an easy task.

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tansy — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:49:50 GMT

It's the signs up and down the major thoroughfares near me that are getting on my nerves.

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occasionalrain — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:50:07 GMT

About the time the candidate calls end, the calls start wanting end of the year donations since they can be deducted on income tax returns.

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chickenbutt — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:54:46 GMT

So sick of it! I'm not getting many robocalls, yet anyway. But every day I get a whole handful of those stupid flyer things. What a freaking waste!!

Are there people who are so stupid that they get those flyers and say 'ooh, this is purdy - I'll vote for this person'. Never mind. I probably don't want to know the answer to that.

The tv ads are just as ridiculous. I've watched numerous tv ads for candidates and every single one, without fail, just goes on and on and on about what is bad about the other person. Ooh, that other candidate is so horrible and so evil. I've not seen a single ad, or even part of an ad, where the candidate tells us what it is about him/her that is why one should vote for him/her.

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straykatz — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:04:26 GMT

On 10/29/2014 chickenbutt said:
So sick of it! I'm not getting many robocalls, yet anyway. But every day I get a whole handful of those stupid flyer things. What a freaking waste!!

Are there people who are so stupid that they get those flyers and say 'ooh, this is purdy - I'll vote for this person'. Never mind. I probably don't want to know the answer to that.

The tv ads are just as ridiculous. I've watched numerous tv ads for candidates and every single one, without fail, just goes on and on and on about what is bad about the other person. Ooh, that other candidate is so horrible and so evil. I've not seen a single ad, or even part of an ad, where the candidate tells us what it is about him/her that is why one should vote for him/her.

OMG....yes...I totally agree....although one of the cadidates here has his mother-in-law in an ad telling us what a good son-in-law he is.

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occasionalrain — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:07:06 GMT

They basically tell us they're the lessor of two evils so we would be better off electing them.

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straykatz — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:08:46 GMT

And the closer we get to Nov 4th the more outlandish the ads become.

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hyacinth003 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:08:49 GMT

I haven't gotten emails.

Getting lots in the mail and phone calls.

Hyacinth

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Vamp — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:11:57 GMT

The ads and phone calls have little influence over who I vote for, and, yes, they have gotten out of hand. It sickens me to think of how much $$ is spend on campaigns when that money could be used for so many better things. *Sigh*

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hckynut — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:12:47 GMT

On 10/29/2014 occasional rain said:
When it's over, can't be too soon, will the feeling of something missing replace them?

I'm thinking we should vote for the candidates who have bothered us the least, the ones with the fewest tv ads, robo calls, and emails. After all they would owe fewer favors to contributors.

Anyone onboard?

I like the person to person calls as many of them we received were for polling data. My wife is not into this arena quite the same as me, so I did all the talking to each person that called with anything to do with polling.

What I did was ask the name of the one doing the polling and if it was a group I hadn't heard of, or a group that I knew had a bias slant in politics, either left or right? I politely said "no thank you", and hung up.

Think I am a rare one when it comes to talking to certain types of "real people calls". I've said here many times that "it makes my day" when I can amuse some of the random calls I get for some specific reason. Gives me a good laugh and many times the person on the other end of the conversation.

I am however very interested in the results of the upcoming elections and we put in our early ballots last week.

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straykatz — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:14:44 GMT

On 10/29/2014 Vamp said:
The ads and phone calls have little influence over who I vote for, and, yes, they have gotten out of hand. It sickens me to think of how much $$ is spend on campaigns when that money could be used for so many better things. *Sigh*

I read it is an estimated 4 billion.

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deepwaterdotter — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:14:52 GMT

On 10/29/2014 VCamp2748 said:
Then there wouldn't be anyone to vote for. LOL! I did find out that voting will make the phone calls go away. The only thing we can do about the tv commercials is to turn it off, put it on mute, or change the channel. Just a few more days & it'll be over, for 2 years at least.

You got that right! And also noticed that phone calls ceased after we absentee voted.

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hckynut — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:30:45 GMT

On 10/29/2014 deepwaterdotter said:
You got that right! And also noticed that phone calls ceased after we absentee voted.

We put in our early ballots the first of last week and I've spoken to at least 5 people taking polling information since then, and I didn't speak with all of the calls. Told them I had already voted and they still wanted to add that to the number of early ballots cast for my party of choice.

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deepwaterdotter — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:37:41 GMT

On 10/29/2014 hckynut said:
On 10/29/2014 deepwaterdotter said:
You got that right! And also noticed that phone calls ceased after we absentee voted.

We put in our early ballots the first of last week and I've spoken to at least 5 people taking polling information since then, and I didn't speak with all of the calls. Told them I had already voted and they still wanted to add that to the number of early ballots cast for my party of choice.

We never received any calls polling for our opinions this year, only to promote certain candidates. In past years I have declined to take part in polling calls, so maybe our number was just taken off of their lists due to non-participation.

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gardenman — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:39:04 GMT

Some of the political ads are actually pretty funny. There's one airing in the Philly market where a candidate complains that his opponent is too much in the pocket of the union bosses. This would be a great ad in a non-union town, but Philly is a big pro-union town and all he's doing by putting that ad on the air is telling everyone to vote for his opponent.

All I ever really want to know from a candidate is: "Where do you think we are now?" "Where should we be?" And finally "What's your plan to get us from here to there?" It's not that hard. Instead we get these "My opponent is an unethical sleezebag!" rebutted by the "While that may be true, my opponent is an even bigger unethical sleezebag!" And they wonder why Americans don't respect politicians any more?

Those three questions (where are we, where should we be, how will you help us get from here to there) are pretty much universal questions. You can ask your children's teachers those questions, a bus/taxi driver, potential employees, politicians, coaches/managers, pretty much anyone at all and their answers will tell you if they're the right person for the job or not. If they don't know where we are, don't know where we should be, and have no clue how to get from here to there, they're not the right person. Far too often the people elected are the wrong people.

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straykatz — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:40:14 GMT

I don't like polls...polls can be made to favor one over another depending who you poll and in most cases their intent and sole purpose is sway/convince voters.

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Cakers1 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:41:56 GMT

I've already voted but an annoying TV ad isn't going to influence me - where the candidates stand on issues matters.

I think it's a waste of a precious vote to not vote for a candidate because of ads, phone calls, etc. Know your candidates and how their stances will matter not just to you but to your state and to the nation.