I’m so excited about tomorrow. The election will be over and we’ll know for sure who our new President will be. But that’s not the main reason. No, I’m excited because tomorrow, all the damned phone calls will STOP.
I’m on both the state and the national Do Not Call lists. Apparently, nonprofits and partisan groups are exempt, for my phone rings all day and most of the evening. Both camps, all trying to convince me to vote for their candidate or their cause or – and I HATE this – trying to convince me that Barack Obama’s a bad man. I’m sorry, but I’ve not had one Democratic call demeaning John McCain, so I can only assume, given the deluge of calls I’ve received in the past month, that the Dems have taken a somewhat higher road. (Hint to the Republicans – if I were an undecided voter, your tack would turn me off BIG time)
So far just this weekend, it’s gone a bit like this:
Saturday – 8 calls
Sunday – 7 calls (we spent the day somewhere else, amen)
Monday – 8 before noon
Tuesday – God help me if I don’t rip the thing out of the wall today
And for the record, I may speak for all voters when I say:
– I don’t care how much Sarah Palin’s clothes cost. For that same reason, I won’t tell you how much I spend on shoes every month.
– Same with Cindy McCain’s wardrobe.
– And Michele Obama’s.
– I don’t want to hear how Obama is somehow a terrorist because of his middle name. That’s just fear-mongering garbage.
– Joe the Plumber? Who cares? He doesn’t represent me, nor does he represent my issues.
– To quote Bill Clinton’s campaign – It’s the economy, stupid. It was then. It is now.
– No, I will NOT put a sign on my lawn or a bumper sticker on my car. My vote is guaranteed private by the Constitution.
– Polarizing us along party lines does nothing but tick everyone off. How are we going to get anything accomplished if we’re worried about who bleeds red and who bleeds blue?
– Stop sending all your fliers denouncing the other candidate (this is for those in local races). You look like a fool who has no agenda.
Any peeves of yours? How many calls per day are you getting?
I know I received at least 8 robocalls yesterday while working on deadline. What made them more annoying was the fact that I had already particiated in early voting. Enough already!
It’s ridiculous. I screen all my calls anyway, so they hang up when they get the machine.
The local election fliers BY REPUBLICANS, I might add, that smear the other candidates this year have been more hateful than usual.
Later this week, I’m writing a letter to the local chapter of the RNC telling them that, as an independent voter, all their mailings did was encourage me to vote AGAINST their candidates, by the sheer repulsiveness of the campaign materials.