# YAAAY!!! No more robo-calls!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248 "2008-11-05T08:56:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/1 "2008-11-05T08:56:22Z")
You guys in some of the other states have no idea what some of us have been through lately. My phone has been blessedly quiet since the polls closed. I think I’ll just unplug it for a few days and enjoy the quiet.
Thanks to Tivo, though, I didn’t have to watch all the bazillion political commercials.
Those of us in battleground states should get two weeks off now, just to recover from the assault.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/2 "2008-11-05T11:33:17Z")
Agreed. The calls seriously pissed me off. I turned my phone off on Sunday (too late, once I did they stopped phoning.)
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/3 "2008-11-05T14:29:45Z")
The voicemail box on my phone has been full for oh, months. I considered clearing it out before I left on vacation, but then I realized it would fill up again with the campaign calls, so I left it full. Blissful. I’ll probably clear it out tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/4 "2008-11-05T14:43:04Z")
Possibly not in Georgia. Chambliss ® may not get 50% and there will be a runoff in a month with Martin (D).
Think of the entire political apparatus of the nation focused on one state.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/5 "2008-11-05T21:50:12Z")
Hooray!
I was getting two or three a day for a while there. At least most of the Obama ones were live people, not robo-calls, but still a tad annoying. I got super-annoying McCain ones, though, where the line stayed open after I hung up the phone, until the spiel was finished. _That_ was annoying.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/6 "2008-11-05T22:13:46Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#):
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> At least most of the Obama ones were live people, not robo-calls, but still a tad annoying.
Yep. They kept trying to get me to volunteer. I live in a county that was solidly blue four years ago and had been insulted by the McCain camp!
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/7 "2008-11-05T22:19:54Z")
I had one from the child of a local guy running for office. That was damn annoying. And I had one at 8:45 on Monday night. That was also damn annoying.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/8 "2008-11-05T23:00:55Z")
I got one and only one call from a live human being. Took great delight in telling her that I would now vote against her candidate because she called me and disturbed me at home.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/9 "2008-11-06T00:36:25Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> YAAAY!!! No more robo-calls!!!
That’s what you think!
I was working today on arrangements for about 60,000 robo-calls and/or email messages to go out for the beginning our our City election cycle, which is 90 days away.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yaaay-no-more-robo-calls/471248/10 "2008-11-06T00:41:01Z")
> [@Clothahump](#):
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> I got one and only one call from a live human being. Took great delight in telling her that I would now vote against her candidate because she called me and disturbed me at home.
That seems awfully petty and disingenuous, especially as IIRC you never had the slightest intention of voting for Obama.