Election ads, email, phonecalls - Page 2

hyacinth003 · ‎03-12-2010

I haven't gotten emails.

Getting lots in the mail and phone calls.

Hyacinth

Vamp · ‎04-14-2010

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* ${#emotions_dlg.sad}$

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

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.

hckynut(john)

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

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* ${#emotions_dlg.sad}$

I read it is an estimated 4 billion.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

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. ${#emotions_dlg.biggrin}$

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

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

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.

hckynut(john)

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

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.

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Cakers1 · ‎03-09-2010

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.