For Dems only.

[Rex Kickass]

More than a few things, number one, I believe we need someone who could unite the country, not further divide them. We need someone with Reagan's or (early version) Bill Clinton pr abilities. The biggest magic that happened with Reagan was making us feel better about our future and our ability to overcome adversity. We had the embarrassment of Nixon, the clumsiness of Ford in W.I.N., and the paralysis of Carter. Then Reagan comes riding in, literally, bigger than life and gives us back our swagger.

 

With the terrorism threat, we need someone who can give us back our swagger. Hillary aint it.

 

Tex,

 

All I can say, is if you get a chance to see her speak live, take it. You might change your thinking a bit. Her demeanor and "swagger" has changed quite a bit in the last six years.

[Texsox]

Tex,

 

All I can say, is if you get a chance to see her speak live, take it. You might change your thinking a bit. Her demeanor and "swagger" has changed quite a bit in the last six years.

 

She may fire up the Dems, but it will not unite. Not even close. She is a lightening rod.

 

Dear James,

 

This is it. The Republicans have circled their wagons and decided that control of the Senate is down to four states. They are going to throw every desperate, lying, misleading, dirty tactic they have left in the Republican playbook at our candidates.

 

It's going to be a long two weeks. But even the Republicans know that if we win in Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee, and New Jersey, then Democrats will take back the Senate. It's that simple.

 

Together, we have given to or raised more than $11 million dollars for Democratic candidates and committees since the end of 2004. Every day we are spending and giving more to elect Democrats. Every day. But we can't stop now.

 

In two weeks, Election Day will be here. But to win, we need to make a final push starting right now.

 

The cash that candidates have on hand by this Friday will determine how large their final media buys can be. And these four Senate races are so close that the size of Friday's media buys may be the difference between victory and defeat.

 

Will you join us in lending your immediate support to four must-win Senate candidates?

 

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In Tennessee, Harold Ford, Jr. is running for the history books. He opposes President Bush's failed "stay the course" policy in Iraq and supports Democrats' efforts to achieve energy independence. His victory on the Tuesday after next will bring one of the most impressive voices of his generation to the Senate.

 

"It's time for a Senator on OUR side." That's what Claire McCaskill is saying all across Missouri in her effort to unseat Senator Jim Talent, a Bush rubber-stamp Republican who was recently named by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) one of the "Oil Slick Seven" for doing the bidding of Big Oil. The Talent campaign has launched vicious, personal attacks against Claire McCaskill. With your help, we can make sure that Missouri's voters see through his unwillingness to tell them what he really believes in.

 

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The next person we need by our side in the Senate -- Bob Menendez -- is already there and already leading the way on one critical issue after another, starting with Iraq. Bob had the courage to vote in favor of my amendment to change course, set a deadline in Iraq, and bring our heroes home. He has been endorsed by the LCV for his outstanding record in the environmental community, and he deserves to win election to a full term in the Senate.

 

Jim Webb in Virginia, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former Secretary of the Navy, is our fourth must-win Senate candidate. He's running neck-and-neck against George Allen, the GOP incumbent who -- just a few short weeks ago -- was considered all but unbeatable. Allen, whose true character has been put on display for Virginia and the nation to see this fall, has been placed on the LCV's "Dirty Dozen" list of the 12 members of Congress with the worst environmental records.

 

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In each of these four key races, we've got momentum on our side. But in every one of them, the outcome is up for grabs. Pull out all the stops. Let's get it done. Let's win.

 

Sincerely,

 

John Kerry

 

Paid for by Friends of John Kerry.

Authorized by McCaskill for Missouri

Authorized by Harold Ford Jr. for Tennessee

Authorized by Menendez for Senate, Inc

Authorized by Webb for Senate 2006

[Rex Kickass]

Not saying she's my choice either, but she's a freakin rock star in person. It's kinda crazy.

[Texsox]

Not saying she's my choice either, but she's a freakin rock star in person. It's kinda crazy.

 

I have no doubt. Problem is only half the country would be dancing and singing along.

[SABRSox]

I don't know how well this will work, but the Dems really need to take it to the Republicans in this election. So at myDD.com, they're Google Bombing the elections. If you've got a blog, help get the following articles to the top of Google searches.

 

 

Here are some informative articles about important Republican candidates running for Congress:

 

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

 

--AZ-01: Rick Renzi

 

--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

 

--CA-04: John Doolittle

 

--CA-11: Richard Pombo

 

--CA-50: Brian Bilbray

 

--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

 

--CO-05: Doug Lamborn

 

--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell

 

--CT-04: Christopher Shays

 

--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

 

--FL-16: Joe Negron

 

--FL-22: Clay Shaw

 

--ID-01: Bill Sali

 

--IL-06: Peter Roskam

 

--IL-10: Mark Kirk

 

--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

 

--IN-02: Chris Chocola

 

--IN-08: John Hostettler

 

--IA-01: Mike Whalen

 

--KS-02: Jim Ryun

 

--KY-03: Anne Northup

 

--KY-04: Geoff Davis

 

--MD-Sen: Michael Steele

 

--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht

 

--MN-06: Michele Bachmann

 

--MO-Sen: Jim Talent

 

--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns

 

--NV-03: Jon Porter

 

--NH-02: Charlie Bass

 

--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson

 

--NM-01: Heather Wilson

 

--NY-03: Peter King

 

--NY-20: John Sweeney

 

--NY-26: Tom Reynolds

 

--NY-29: Randy Kuhl

 

--NC-08: Robin Hayes

 

--NC-11: Charles Taylor

 

--OH-01: Steve Chabot

 

--OH-02: Jean Schmidt

 

--OH-15: Deborah Pryce

 

--OH-18: Joy Padgett

 

--PA-04: Melissa Hart

 

--PA-07: Curt Weldon

 

--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick

 

--PA-10: Don Sherwood

 

--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee

 

--TN-Sen: Bob Corker

 

--VA-Sen: George Allen

 

--VA-10: Frank Wolf

 

--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick

 

--WA-08: Dave Reichert

 

 

[Balta1701]

In total, the 2006 midterms are forecast to be the most expensive ever, costing $2.6 billion. Three-quarters of this, or $1.85 billion, will come from business interests.

- Stat supposedly from the Wall Street Journal today, subscription only.

[Texsox]

 

Gee, how did Barack get my email addy?

Dear James,

 

This is our moment. In the last 24 hours, we have seen a tremendous outpouring of support from the johnkerry.com community. You've raised over $350,000, rushing money to four crucial Senate campaigns that will use this cash to expand their final media buys on Friday.

 

John Kerry told you yesterday that control of the Senate comes down to these four states: Tennessee, Missouri, New Jersey, and Virginia. Top Republican strategists have admitted as much.

 

This is how we will take back the Senate. This is how we will change America. And this is why your donation has never been more critical.

 

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I was honored when John Kerry asked me to keynote his Democratic National Convention in the summer of 2004. In the last two years, he and I have been working tirelessly to win back Congress. And now, it's come down to the final two weeks.

 

You know the kind of ads we're going to see in these last days. They'll play on our fears, they'll try to divide us, and they'll try to distract us from the real issues in this race -- the need for a new course in Iraq, for new leadership in Washington, for a new direction on health care and energy and education.

 

We've seen it all before, and we'll see it all again. But right now, you have the power to show America that it's not gonna work. Not this time.

 

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These four Senate races are going down to the wire. And, if we act together, the Republican candidates in each of these four states are going down to defeat.

 

Help Harold Ford, Jr. in Tennessee, Claire McCaskill in Missouri, Bob Menendez in New Jersey, and Jim Webb in Virginia.

 

If we win these races, we win it all.

 

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Americans are tired of being divided, tired of partisan roadblocks, tired of appeals to our worst instincts and greatest fears.

 

This country is ready for change. This country is desperate for leadership. Now it's up to us to get it done. Let's finish the job. Let's help America believe again.<!-- D(["mb","

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Barack Obama

[longshot7]

More than a few things, number one, I believe we need someone who could unite the country, not further divide them. We need someone with Reagan's or (early version) Bill Clinton pr abilities. The biggest magic that happened with Reagan was making us feel better about our future and our ability to overcome adversity. We had the embarrassment of Nixon, the clumsiness of Ford in W.I.N., and the paralysis of Carter. Then Reagan comes riding in, literally, bigger than life and gives us back our swagger.

 

With the terrorism threat, we need someone who can give us back our swagger. Hillary aint it.

 

I tend to agree. I don't think she can win.

[Balta1701]

A few days ago, one of the liberal geniuses at ABC did a report on how the political ads were "getting ugly" because of that RNC ad with all the pictures of the terrorists they haven't caught threatening America. When asked to name a similarly negative ad from the other side, all that the guy could come up with was it was only a matter of time before the left would "unleash its garbage as well" (without, of course, being able to give any supporting evidence).

 

Finally, someone actually writes the story on how much more vicious the ads from the Republican side have been. Not talking about Fox or anything like that, at least that sort of focuses on substance. Here's some of the WaPo's selections (from both sides).

 

"When the news is bad, the ads tend to be negative," said Shanto Iyengar, a Stanford professor who studies political advertising. "And the more negative the ad, the more likely it is to get free media coverage. So there's a big incentive to go to the extremes."

 

The result has been a carnival of ugly, especially on the GOP side, where operatives are trying to counter what polls show is a hostile political environment by casting opponents as fatally flawed characters. The National Republican Campaign Committee is spending more than 90 percent of its advertising budget on negative ads, according to GOP operatives, and the rest of the party seems to be following suit. A few examples of the "character issues" taking center stage two weeks before Election Day:

 

· In New York, the NRCC ran an ad accusing Democratic House candidate Michael A. Arcuri, a district attorney, of using taxpayer dollars for phone sex. "Hi, sexy," a dancing woman purrs. "You've reached the live, one-on-one fantasy line." It turns out that one of Arcuri's aides had tried to call the state Division of Criminal Justice, which had a number that was almost identical to that of a porn line. The misdial cost taxpayers $1.25.

 

· In Ohio, GOP gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell, trailing by more than 20 points in polls, has accused front-running Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland of protecting a former aide who was convicted in 1994 on a misdemeanor indecency charge. Blackwell's campaign is also warning voters through suggestive "push polls" that Strickland failed to support a resolution condemning sex between adults and children. Strickland, a psychiatrist, objected to a line suggesting that sexually abused children cannot have healthy relationships when they grow up.

 

· The Republican Party of Wisconsin distributed a mailing linking Democratic House candidate Steve Kagen to a convicted serial killer and child rapist. The supposed connection: The "bloodthirsty" attorney for the killer had also done legal work for Kagen.

 

· In two dozen congressional districts, a political action committee supported by a white Indianapolis businessman, J. Patrick Rooney, is running ads saying Democrats want to abort black babies. A voice says, "If you make a little mistake with one of your hos, you'll want to dispose of that problem tout de suite, no questions asked."

 

· In the most controversial recent ad, the Republican National Committee slammed Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) for attending a Playboy-sponsored Super Bowl party. In the ad, a scantily clad white actress winks as she reminisces about good times with Ford, who is black. That ad has been pulled, but the RNC has a new one saying Ford "wants to give the abortion pill to schoolchildren."

 

Some Democrats are playing rough, too. House candidate Chris Carney is running ads slamming the "family values" of Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.), whose former mistress accused him of choking her. And House candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has an ad online ridiculing Rep. John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.) for attending a late-night fraternity party. "What's a 50-year-old man doing at a frat party anyway?" one young woman asks, as a faux Sweeney boogies behind her to the Beastie Boys. "Totally creeping me out!" another responds.

 

But most harsh Democratic attacks have focused on the policies and performance of the GOP majority, trying to link Republicans to Bush, the unpopular war in Iraq and the scandals involving former representative Mark Foley and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. That is not surprising, given that polls show two-thirds of the electorate thinks the country is going in the wrong direction. And studies show that negative ads can reduce turnout; Democrats hope a constant drumbeat of scandal, Iraq and "stay the course" will persuade conservatives to stay home on Nov. 7.

 

It is harder for Republicans to blame out-of-power Democrats for the current state of Washington, but they are equally eager to depress Democratic turnout and fire up their conservative base. One GOP strategy has been raising the specter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal, becoming speaker; for example, Rep. John N. Hostettler (R-Ind.) is airing radio ads warning that a Democratic victory would allow Pelosi to "put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda." Then again, Hostettler's opponent, Democrat Brad Ellsworth, has accused him of promoting the sale of guns to criminals, "including child-rapists."

 

Some of this year's negative ads are more substantive, reprising a successful Republican strategy from 2002 and 2004: portraying Democrats as soft on terrorism. For example, Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-Conn.) has an ad lambasting her opponent for opposing Bush's efforts to conduct wiretaps without search warrants. A host of Democrats have been accused of trying to "cut and run" in Iraq -- including House candidate Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who lost both legs in Iraq.

 

The RNC has raised eyebrows with an ad consisting almost entirely of al-Qaeda videos starring Osama bin Laden and his top deputies. There is no sound except the ticking of a bomb before the final warning: "These are the stakes. Vote November 7th." John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor who has written a book defending negative political ads, said he told a well-connected Republican friend in Washington that the ticking-bomb ploy seemed like a desperation move. The friend e-mailed back: "John, we're desperate!"

 

"Look, the electorate is polarized, the stakes are large, and neither party has much to run on right now," Geer said. "You can expect to see some pretty outlandish ads."

 

The "pays for sex" ad against Kind in Wisconsin -- along with a similar one aired against Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) -- may be the most extreme. It says Kind spent tax dollars to study "the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes" and "the masturbation habits of old men" and "to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia." Cue the punch line: "Ron Kind pays for sex, but not for soldiers." The Wisconsin Republican Party denounced the ad, and several TV stations refused to air it, but that only got it more attention. It is the centerpiece of Nelson's Web site: "This ad is so powerful, a sitting U.S. Congressman threatened TV stations with legal action if they dared to play it."

 

Kind joked in an interview that he has been paying for sex ever since he said "I do." But on a more serious note, he said Nelson's attack ad is typical of modern politics, in which desperate candidates can attract media coverage and rally their base with distortion. He opposed the amendment in question -- as did many Republicans -- because he does not think Congress should interfere in peer-reviewed NIH studies, not because of any interest in teenage genitalia. That particular study, incidentally, had nothing to do with teenagers.

I like how the most vicious things they had they could hit the Dems with were ads attacking a Congressman for choking his mistress.

[BHAMBARONS]

I am still undecided whether I will vote for Renzi (AZ-1) or not. I hate the fact Renzi seems to be so corrupt but Ellen Simon is just not getting her name out I really don't know what she stands for so it is still a tossup for me. I definitely voting for Jim Peterson over Jon Kyl because he seems to be a cheerleader for Bush voting with him 98.7% of time that is just to much. As I heard someone say a couple weeks ago (a quote from the movie "The Man"). "Kyl is one of Bush's bitc*** Bush pulls the strings and Kyl dances"

[Balta1701]

So, the Simpsons have taken on the Iraq war a couple of times in recent years ("I guess we learned that war is not the answer...except to all of America's problems"), but this is probably going to be the most blunt.

For "The Simpsons," Halloween usually means all things spooky, scary and silly - think wise-cracking zombies, ghouls and ghosts.

 

But this year, just in time for the mid-November U.S. congressional elections, Homer and the gang are getting political. The "Treehouse of Horror" episode, with a tentative air date of Nov. 5 on Fox-TV and Global, is a takeoff on Orson Welles's famous radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds."

 

That broadcast caused widespread panic in 1938, when listeners tuned in and believed planet Earth had been invaded by aliens.

 

In Springfield, the radio broadcast causes such confusion that it allows Kang and Kodos, the lime-green, one-eyed aliens who show up in every eagerly anticipated "Simpsons" Halloween episode, to stage an actual invasion.

 

Entitled "The Day the Earth Was Stupid," the segment's parallels to the American occupation of Iraq are surprisingly heavy-handed for the usually sly "Simpsons."

 

"The Earthlings continue to resent our presence," Kang says at one point to Kodos. "You said we'd be greeted as liberators!"

 

"Don't worry; we still have the people's hearts and minds," Kodos replies, then cheerfully holds up a brain and a heart.

 

As the two take in the smouldering ruins of Springfield, Kang deadpans the last line of the segment: "This sure is a lot like Iraq will be." The show's executive producer, Al Jean, said recently he's not sure if that line will be make the final cut of the show because some of the show's writers find it too obvious.

[FlaSoxxJim]

Here's a fun parody on the "call me" ad attacking Harold Ford

 

 

Edited October 31, 2006 by FlaSoxxJim

[FlaSoxxJim]

Before he became the first of three campaign managers to quit, Jim Dornan programmed his cellphone to play the theme song from "The Exorcist" when [Katherine] Harris called.

 

[Balta1701]

Thank Jesus. This is exactly what we needed. In another 10 years, we'll have abstinence-only education expanded to 65 year olds, and everyone everywhere will eschew sex in service of the lord.

[longshot7]

Thank Jesus. This is exactly what we needed. In another 10 years, we'll have abstinence-only education expanded to 65 year olds, and everyone everywhere will eschew sex in service of the lord.

 

talk about head in the sand.

[Balta1701]

So, I'm not yet sure whether or not this is a big deal, but it's probably worth noting.

 

A little over a week ago, a U.S. soldier was kidnapped somewhere in Iraq. The U.S. military responded by basically closing off Sadr city, the Shi'ite slums in Baghdad controlled by the Madhi army.

 

The U.S. held that area basically under seige for a week, undertaking searches, keeping the Madhi Army indoors (which may have allowed a few large bombs to go off in that area), and so on.

 

Well, yesterday, Iraqi P.M. Maliki finally got fed up and ordered the U.S. to remove the checkpoints and the blockade. And, without having found the captured soldier (or the other death squad leader they were reportedly looking for) the U.S. agreed and lifted the seige.

 

So, again, I'm not sure at all that it's the wrong thing to do to lift the seige, but if the U.S. genuinely believes that a captured U.S. soldier is being held somewhere in that area, didn't we just cede control over U.S. security and forces to another country?

 

Full WaPo link.

[southsider2k5]

So, I'm not yet sure whether or not this is a big deal, but it's probably worth noting.

 

A little over a week ago, a U.S. soldier was kidnapped somewhere in Iraq. The U.S. military responded by basically closing off Sadr city, the Shi'ite slums in Baghdad controlled by the Madhi army.

 

The U.S. held that area basically under seige for a week, undertaking searches, keeping the Madhi Army indoors (which may have allowed a few large bombs to go off in that area), and so on.

 

Well, yesterday, Iraqi P.M. Maliki finally got fed up and ordered the U.S. to remove the checkpoints and the blockade. And, without having found the captured soldier (or the other death squad leader they were reportedly looking for) the U.S. agreed and lifted the seige.

 

So, again, I'm not sure at all that it's the wrong thing to do to lift the seige, but if the U.S. genuinely believes that a captured U.S. soldier is being held somewhere in that area, didn't we just cede control over U.S. security and forces to another country?

 

Full WaPo link.

 

Israel has been taken to the matt for closing off areas when their soldiers were kidnapped or when they were attacked from those areas, and now its a bad thing when we don't do the samething? I can understand believing in one way or the other, but pick a side and stay with it, please. Either its OK to hold an area hostage looking for your troops or its not.

[Balta1701]

Israel has been taken to the matt for closing off areas when their soldiers were kidnapped or when they were attacked from those areas, and now its a bad thing when we don't do the samething? I can understand believing in one way or the other, but pick a side and stay with it, please. Either its OK to hold an area hostage looking for your troops or its not.

I was sort of not trying to deal with that part of it, hence the phrase "So, again, I'm not sure at all that it's the wrong thing to do to lift the seige". I'm more concerned with the fact that it seems like our forces are basically being held at the whim of Muqtada al Sadr.

[Balta1701]

Since the GOP only thread has joined in the Pelosi-bashing, I think this has become a Worthy piece to post.

 

The flood of unsolicited advice about etiquette and manners coming Democrats' way from Beltway insiders -- from the "make-nice crowd," as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calls them -- rings hollow. The press seems spooked that a Democratic victory would mean Congress would then become too political, too partisan. Yet this is coming from the same Beltway press corps that yawned while polarizing, partisan House Republicans, led by Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), discarded generations' worth of bipartisan Capitol Hill traditions and protocol in order to radically alter the way the legislative branch functions. But only now, with the specter of a Democratic majority looming, do journalists consider partisanship to be a newsworthy (and disturbing) issue.

 

The trend highlights two distinct media double standards on clear display during the run-up to November. The first suggests that when Republicans are in power, partisanship, even the jacked-up kind on steroids, is dubbed healthy hardball. But if Democrats practice any (or even contemplate it), that's deemed to be bad for democracy. The second is that Democratic Party leaders are routinely held to a different press standard; a standard usually constructed by Republican smears.

 

In this case, it's the false claim that Pelosi is wildly unpopular and out of the mainstream. It's those sorts of Republican talking points that allow Today show co-host Matt Lauer to refer to Pelosi as "controversial" without citing any reason for the unflattering description, as he did on October 20.

 

Not surprisingly, Fox News has become obsessed with Pelosi this campaign season. Between September 19 and October 19, "Pelosi" was mentioned 330 times on Fox News, according to TVeyes.com, compared with 163 mentions on MSNBC, and just 84 references on CNN. Fox News even found Pelosi's little-known California congressional opponent and invited him on the air to trash Pelosi's "San Francisco values." Meanwhile, Fox News host Sean Hannity warned, "I don't think America has a clue who this woman is that would be third in line to be president of the United States."

 

But does America have a clue, for example, who Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is? If Republicans manage to keep a thin majority in the U.S. Senate, it's likely McConnell would replace Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) as the Senate leader. So why hasn't the press focused much attention on McConnell, a fundraising machine who's badly out of step with a majority of Americans on a whole range of issues, including teen smoking, the war in Iraq, and regulating campaign contributions. Where are the "Is McConnell too conservative?" cable-TV roundtable discussions and chat-fests? Where are the news profiles that ask whether McConnell is a likable figure who can connect with everyday Americans? A search of the Nexis database for news articles and transcripts over the past 60 days that mention Mitch McConnell at least five times retrieves 91 matches. But a similar search for news mentions of Nancy Pelosi retrieves 493 matches.

[southsider2k5]

Since the GOP only thread has joined in the Pelosi-bashing, I think this has become a Worthy piece to post.

 

Posting someones voting record is now "bashing"?

[Balta1701]

So, it seems that the GOP has come up with a brand new technique to make people not vote for the Democrats. The NRCC seems to have pumped about $2 million into a robo-call system for this election. Now, I bet that almost everyone has gotten robotic calls before an election (last one I got was from Al Gore), but a majority of the people who receive those calls just hang up on them, including me.

 

So what is the NRCC doing differently? They've set up a system where the call starts with something that makes it sound like they're talking about the Democratic candidate in a race. "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about Tammy Duckworth...", or something like that. If you listen to the full message, you hear a call that spends time bashing the Democratic candidate. But if you don't listen to the whole call and hang up, you think you're getting a call from the Democrat. But here's the real kicker...if you hang up early...they seem to have the system programmed to constantly call people back, up to several dozen times. So the phone keeps ringing and the voter keeps hearing "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about candidate x", so that the people receiving the calls are furious with that Democratic candidate.

 

New Hampshire, New Jersey, Philly, and a bunch of other states have been hit with this one int he last few days. Supposedly something like 50 Congressional campaigns have been targeted.

[Rex Kickass]

Whispers are that targeted robocalls are now calling Dem households in Virginia saying that "if you vote, you will be arrested."

 

Take it with a grain of salt but....

 

http://www.webbforsenate.com/media/phone_message.wav

 

Whispers are that targeted robocalls are now calling Dem households in Virginia saying that "if you vote, you will be arrested."

 

Take it with a grain of salt but....

 

http://www.webbforsenate.com/media/phone_message.wav

 

 

Fox News poll shows a wave of Dem support tomorrow.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227707,00.html

 

NEW YORK — Nearly half of likely voters — 49 percent — favor the Democratic candidate in their House district and 36 percent the Republican, with 15 percent still undecided in a FOX News poll conducted the final weekend before the midterm elections.

 

More Democrats (37 percent) than Republicans (26 percent) say they are extremely interested in tomorrow’s elections, and more Democrats (89 percent) than Republicans (81 percent) say they plan to vote for their party’s candidate in their district.

[Balta1701]

There are also whispers of robo-calls or of other calls telling people that their polling place has changed, but at this point that is nothing but a rumor (and I believe it's a fairly common rumor around election day).

 

More interesting, the legal counsel for the DCCC, the Democratic version of the Republican group running these harrassing phone calls, has sent a letter demanding that the NRCC cease and desist the calls on the grounds that they violate FCC regulations in that the opening of the call does not identify the person responsible and that they do not include a phone number for the responsible party.

 

Linkity.

 

Supposedly, a bunch of the major media organizations got cold feet on running this type of story on election day, so unless you really go online and pay attention, or get one of the few papers to actually note the story, the odds are that if you got the 30 robo-calls in a week, you're going to blame the Democrat, because no one is bothering to report the fact that they're coming from the Republicans. And since the media is therefore going to be complicit in having it actually work, we can expect it to be employed on a much larger scale in 2008.

 

Damn liberal media.

Edited November 7, 2006 by Balta1701

[FlaSoxxJim]

the interesting follow-up on the robocall fiasco that I saw coming out of NH yesterday, is that most or all of the people being called were on the federal do-not-call-me list. That means that each of the calls is subject to a possible $1,000 fine, meaning that as of yesterday might the NRCC may have racked up as much as $10 million worth of unauthorized calls.

 

Multiply that by the 6 or 8 places where this is happening the most and it could break the NRCC bank -- IF it were ever pursued and successfully prosecuted.

[EvilMonkey]

the interesting follow-up on the robocall fiasco that I saw coming out of NH yesterday, is that most or all of the people being called were on the federal do-not-call-me list. That means that each of the calls is subject to a possible $1,000 fine, meaning that as of yesterday might the NRCC may have racked up as much as $10 million worth of unauthorized calls.

 

Multiply that by the 6 or 8 places where this is happening the most and it could break the NRCC bank -- IF it were ever pursued and successfully prosecuted.

I think that political solicitations are exempt from that list.