# What famous people have called you urging you to vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424 "2004-11-01T22:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/1 "2004-11-01T22:28:29Z")
I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve had Ben Stein and George W. Bush himself call and ask me personally to vote tomorrow. And vote republican…because " We’ve been through a lot in the last four years…" Whoooo. Telemarketers have been replaced by politicians. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/2 "2004-11-01T22:37:40Z")
I’ve had Kerry and Bush call me, Clinton (twice), Darrell Waltrip, Russ Feingold, and someone else who I forget. That’s just the ones I’ve answered. I’ve not picked up _lots_ of “out of areas” in the last month or so. I actually don’t mind most of the crap, but the phone calls are over the line, IMO. Wonder how powerful the phone spam lobby is or if there’s a chance of getting this crap curtailed or eliminated by the next go-round. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/3 "2004-11-01T22:39:08Z")
The only even remotely interesting person we had call was Mark Wellstone, son of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN-DFL) who died in a plane crash two years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/4 "2004-11-01T23:22:42Z")
Last week I hung up on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and today I hung up on Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/5 "2004-11-01T23:37:46Z")
Gee-Dubya, Bill Clinton, Ben Stein, and (today) HAL LINDEN? Those are just the ones on whom I didn’t hang up immediately upon hearing the telltale silence before the computer kicked in. I can’t wait for this damn election to be over with, so I can answer the phone and have a fair shot at it actually being FOR ME PERSONALLY. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/6 "2004-11-01T23:42:46Z")
No one’s called me. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/7 "2004-11-02T00:25:07Z")
George called me last night, thought that was pretty cool. Only other calls I’ve received is from local people and i just hang up on their pre recorded message. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/8 "2004-11-02T00:32:29Z")
W, Clinton, Cheney, Kerry and Hal Linden! ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/9 "2004-11-02T00:56:38Z")
Rudy Giuliani. And I have no idea why. It was very much a rally-our-supporters kind of call, and I am definitely not a supporter. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/10 "2004-11-02T01:01:19Z")
Arnold Schwarzenegger called me today, as well as President Bush. You’d think he’d be busy but he’s called me, count 'em, twice. Last week Laura Bush called for me. I hung up on all of them. Gosh, I hope they don’t take it personally. ---
**Author:** ![fireman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fireman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fireman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/11 "2004-11-02T01:02:38Z")
Lynn Swann and General Wesley Clark. Funny, neither one would stop talking when I tried to ask a question. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/12 "2004-11-02T01:16:03Z")
Robert Redford (for a renewable energy resource initiative) and Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/13 "2004-11-02T01:21:31Z")
I hung up on Wesley Clark last night, and he called me back 5 minutes later! :eek: Although I’m registered as independent (or unenrolled), I seem to have made the Flaming Liberal List[sup]tm[/sup], which would explain the recent calls from Amy Madigan (for NARAL) and Carl Pope (executive director of the Sierra Club). Zell Miller also called to tell me why he’s a Bush democrat. I’ve also had calls from people who identify themselves as relatives of 9/11 victims, which really creeps me out. I mean, they have a right to endorse whoever they want obviously, but it’s basically only one step away from having the candidate anoint himself with the ashes of 9/11, IMHO. Oh yeah, and then there are the call-center folks who urge me to vote to protect “towns like ours” and the mispronounce the name of the state capital. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/14 "2004-11-02T01:24:55Z")
Just got off the phone with Bill Clinton. He says hi. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/15 "2004-11-02T02:37:30Z")
I got both oversized postcards and phone calls from Ed Koch. He’s stumping for a Jewish Republican group (the RJC–the Republican Jewish Committee, I think, whoever they are), and he wants me to vote for George W. Fat chance. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/16 "2004-11-02T02:54:41Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > Rudy Giuliani. And I have no idea why. It was very much a rally-our-supporters kind of call, and I am definitely not a supporter. \ “I am Rudy Giuliani. You must forgive Dubya. I am Rudy Giuliani. You must forgive Dubya…” \ When I lived in Ohio, I got a call from someone claiming he was Dennis Kucinich and he’d do anything for my vote – as a matter of fact, he’d like to take me out to breakfast. I hung up, assuming it was a crank call, as politicians can’t offer anything of value in exchange for a vote – and what was Dennis gonna do, take me to the polls on Election Day and follow me into the booth to make sure I opted for him in the race for my district’s U.S. Representative seat? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/17 "2004-11-02T02:58:18Z")
Kucinich taking you for breakfast? You’d be at some vegan place… Caroline Kennedy called me. I figured it was a birthday call, as hers is the day before mine(26th) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/18 "2004-11-02T03:00:36Z")
I’m so sad. Nobody likes me! It must be this red state I live in. Or possibly I smell and nobody will tell me. (NOW hasn’t stopped sending me mail, though, and while I generally agree with them in principal I’ve got to break it off with them because they’re getting kinda psycho in their communications and I don’t know if I need an entire organization stalking me.) \ ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/19 "2004-11-02T03:14:36Z")
John Edwards’ father, he said, on tape. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424/20 "2004-11-02T03:17:20Z")
I also got a call from Rudy Giuliani, urging me to vote Re-Re-Re-Re-Republican (the recording skipped). I also heard from George Bush Sr. although urging me to vote for a particular congressman. I thought he would be asking me to vote for Dubya 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-have-called-you-urging-you-to-vote/272424.md?page=2)