I just got a call from someone purporting to poll for the US election. She had my name (from where) and then asked if I would rather vote for a man who would be 86 at the end of his term or for RFK jr who is young, honest, will preserve the constitution, … Before she finished, I interrupted to say that she forgot to mention that he is is a stupid asshole. And then I hung up.
I get that you hung up. I would have been so incensed I would probably have done the same. But given you are smart enough to understand what they were doing it might have been better to stay on the line and answer all their questions in the most Biden favoring way possible.
Again, not sure I wouldn’t have done the same but it may be something the rest of us should consider going forward.
Did she really suggest that RFK Jr was “young”? He’s seventy.
It’s funny because none of those things apply to RFK, Jr.
But don’t such “polls” exist only to get people to do something (typically send money)? It’s not like they’re going to publish the results if the answers aren’t what they want.*
You da man, Hari!
*I think I filled in and sent back a dumbass push poll (received in the mail from the G.O.P.) just once. Every succeeding one has gone in the trash.
I’m in @Jackmannii’s camp, that was going to segue into a request for money. After all, after you acknowledge that RFK is a savior (snerk) and Trump is the devil (a given), of course you’ll donate to let the savoir win, won’t you? It was IMHO far too obvious a tilt to ever be for a legitimate electioneering purpose, especially considering RFKs performance to date.
Nobody whose father died before the Moon landing has any business calling themselves young.
Some articles about him say he’s well funded. I was hoping they were wrong, so your post is not what I want to hear.
I guess it’s conceivable that you were called by a volunteer. If anyone else gets one of these calls, how about giving the answer they want (so they keep on talking) and then politely ask if them if they are a volunteer. If not, the next question is where there are calling from. I wonder if RFK Jr push polling is one of those jobs, like being Donald Trump’s wife, that Americans won’t do.
This reminds me of when Bush picked Dan Quayle (if there has ever been anyone dumber than Trump in a high position in Washington, it was Quayle-- seriously-- he was accepted to the least prestigious law school in Indiana under a special program for people whose undergraduate GPA wasn’t very high) to be his running mate.
I don’t remember whether it started with sour grapes from another Republican, a joke from a Democrat, or a serious suggestion from the Perot camp, but speculation was going around that Bush picked Quayle for his looks (which on the whole were average, but he was young, and compared to just Washington, was Mr. Atlas), in order to shore up his appeal to women.
Gary Trudeau did a strip that announced the results of a poll in which women were overwhelmingly saying they’d vote for Bush/Quayle, and cited Quayle “handsomeness.”
The punchline was that the pollsters failed to factor in sarcasm.
Yeah, a lot I’m reminded of this, and I haven’t thought about it in a very long time.
Oh, that is good. Like, the “quotable week” page of Newsweek good. Wish I knew where to send it.
I should say thank you. But, in the light of morning, I find I was more snarky than I want to be.
Have you forgotten about Sarah Palin? Okay, she was just a candidate, and thankfully didn’t win.
But say what you will about Quayle (and everyone has), it’s largely thanks to him that we’re not in the second Trump administration now. He was the one who told Pence that he couldn’t refuse to certify the Electoral College results.
Whatever you think of Quayle’ s intelligence, that act may make him the greatest US patriot of his generation.
The accent was some kind of American accent, although she did call to a Canadian phone number. She asked for me by name, incidentally, although she could have had access to some voter registration list. Are they public in IL, where I am registered? She could have been from Chicago and (I don’t mean to be racist here, just factual) didn’t seem to be black.
One time, I got a call from the Conservative Party of Canada asking if I would be supporting them in the upcoming election. I said “I would rather have a rabid wolverine nibbling on my private parts for all eternity.” I have to hand it to her, she took it all in stride and responded “So that would be a no?” And we both laughed.
(It might have been the Saskatchewan Party)
I once got a call from the Indiana Republican party-- I don’t remember if they were soliciting votes or money, but I told them never to call me again ever-- mark me “deceased” if they had to.
They called me again two months later. I donated $5 to the Democrat mayoral candidate (of Indianapolis’) campaign, and sent the Republican party an image of a $5 bill in the body of an email claiming it was the actual $5 (it wasn’t) that I had donated to the Democrat party immediately (that part was true) after their most recent call, and that every subsequent time they called me, I would donate another $5.
They never called again.