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Obama Campaign "Robots Attack" Video

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Robo Call Map Database

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Here is the database that populates our map.

Thanks again to the work of Alan Gutierrez.

The Award for Robo Call That Most Resembles A Robot The Most (WI)

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This robo call from the Republican Party of Wisconsin gets the award for the most Robotic robo call this election cycle.  Or is that Idiotic?

Don't believe me?

Click here for the audio.

From this blog.

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Robo Call Tracking Map Using Twitter

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Great map developed by Alan Gutierrez :

Here is what you do:

1. Go to this link and Report a Robocall
2. And then the information you enter at that form is displayed on this map below.
3. Don't forget to check out our robo call database with audio here.

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NOTE:  Here is the database that populates the map.

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McCain Rezko Robo call in Ohio (Audio)

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As reported by a member today.

What:  McCain robo call.

Where:  Ohio

Against:  Obama

Transcript: (HT Ben Smith at Politico)

Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama and convicted felon Tony Rezko have been friends for almost 20 years.

Rezko donated and raised thousands of dollars in political contributions for Obama, and Rezko helped Obama buy his $1.6 million mansion in a swanky Chicago neighborhood. Obama needs to come clean on this deal before the election so that the voters can judge whether Obama received monetary benefits from these Rezko favors.

And since the Democrats took control of Congress only a few years ago, they have driven our economy into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And what's their solution to the problem? To spread more of our wealth around by raising our taxes and giving it to those who don't pay a single penny of federal income tax. With friends and priorities like these, Barack Obama and his Democrat allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call paid for by the Republican National Committee and McCain-Palin 2008.

Audio:

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Obama Girl Robo calls the candidates (funny)

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Just in from the Obama girl:

Obama Girls Makes Some RoboCalls. - Buzly.com - All videos in one place

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Gay Baiting Robo Call in SC

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We are hearing reports that Mike Mulvaney, running for SC state senate, is making gay baiting robo calls.  (oh by the way, robo calls in SC are illegal).  That is, someone associated with him is making calls purporting to come from a gay rights organization in SC endorsing his opponent.   Only this org doesn't exist.

Something like this occurred last Fall in Kentucky with the Governor's race.  A robo call went out purporting to be from a gay rights organization supporting a specific candidate.  Only the gay rights organization had nothing to do with it.

This was the content of that call last Fall:

For the first time in 20 years, the homosexual lobby proudly endorses a Kentucky candidate for governor: Steve Beshear. Beshear is receiving major support from out-of-state gay activists and has publicly committed to same-gender relationships, employment of more homosexuals in state government including teachers, and support for homosexual adoption of children.

If you believe these rights are fair please vote for Steve Beshear for governor. Visit Fairness.org.

Now comes a report of the following gay baiting robo call in South Carolina (where robo calls are illegal).

Here is the transcript:

Hi, this is Allison calling from the Alliance for the Advancement of Gays and Lesbians.

We are a pro-gay rights, pro-choice grassroots organization.

I am calling to let you know that we are supporting Mandy Powers Norrell in the state Senate

A proven Democrat, Mandy Powers Norrell supports homosexual unions and abortion rights. We can count on Mandy Powers Norrell to promote a progressive agenda in the state Senate and to fight the right wing fringe at every turn.

Again, this is Allison with the Alliance for the Advancement of Gays and Lesbians asking you to vote for Democrat Mandy Powers Norrell on Tuesday, November 4. Thank you.

Here is the audio:

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McCain PA Robo call (Audio)

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This just reported by a StopPoliticalCalls.org member in PA 10/28.

McCain Robo call:

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Show Me The Money! An Open Letter To the Robocall Industry

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Cross Posted at Politics Magazine.

All the legitimate data and studies show that robo calls don’t work.   Not now, not ever. 

So, I ask you robo call guys and gals, to show me the money. 

Show us the data that you have that proves that robo calls do more than turn voters off from elections, candidates and democracy.  I have 85,000 members that all detest robo calls and want to stop the madness.

But don’t believe me.

Here is a quote from a member of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry this week:

You can tell Eric Roberson, Democrat running for Pete Sessions's  congressional seat in Dallas, TX, that I withheld my vote for him SOLELY  because of the MANY robocalls he showered me with.  Since I generally  vote against the religious right wing, I would have voted against  Sessions by voting for Roberson, but his half-dozen or so calls from  972-599-2485 ticked me off.  You can tell him and other candidates that  at least one voter thinks and acts this way.

OR, how about this one:

Since I am dying from cancer, I had my phone disconnected...solved the problem of answering unwanted call and the pain to answer them this last year! Nothing else seemed to totally work.

The facts are that politicians make robo calls because they can.   Not because they work.

Don't believe me?

Here are some more facts, as reported by Todd Rogers, Phd at the Analyst Institute:

A 2005 study failed to show that robocalls generated mobilization results among youth voters. This study was conducted during the 2005 New Jersey Gubernatorial Election. 18,000 young voters were randomly selected to be robocalled with one of two GOTV messages, while the rest of the young voters in the election were left uncontacted. The first group’s message encouraged turnout and informed the voters of their polling location. The second group’s message was a generic turnout encouragement. Neither message was effective at increasing turnout over the uncontacted group (Nickerson, 2005).
 
Another study in 2001 in Seattle failed to find any mobilizing effect from robocalls when placed from a local election official. The local registrar of voters recorded a message sent to 10,000 voters the day before the November Municipal election reminding citizens to vote. No statistically significant increase in turnout resulted among those who received the robocalls relative to those who did not (Nickerson, 2002).
 
A 2006 study failed to find that robocalls increased turnout among Latino voters when the calls were placed from a Latino organization. The National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) conducted the study during the 2006 General Election in five California counties. Robocalls were delivered to 61,422 low propensity Latino voters. No effect on turnout was found among those who were called relative to those who were not called (Michelson, 2007).
 
A 2005 study failed to find that robocalls had an effect when using the voice of a Latino celebrity. NALEO conducted this study in California, New Mexico, and the city of Houston, TX, during the 2002 General Election. More than 250,000 phone numbers associated with Latino voters received two robocalls each. The calls were recorded in Spanish by a Spanish-language-television celebrity anchorwoman. The researchers found no statistically reliable increase in turnout among those who were assigned to receive the calls relative to those who were assigned to not receive the calls. The cost of the robocall campaign was $23,725 which means that the robocalls in this study resulted in a cost per vote of approximately $275 (Ramirez, 2005).
 
A similar 2004 study failed to find that robocalls had an effect when using the voice of an African American celebrity to call African American populations. In North Carolina and Missouri during the 2004 Presidential Election, precincts were divided into three groups. The groups were defined by precincts with high voter density and a large percentage of African American voters, precincts with a low voter density and a moderate percentage of African American voters, and precincts with a high voter density and a low percentage of African American voters. Individuals in these groupings were then randomly assigned to receive one of two robocall messages or to be left uncontacted. Both robodials were recorded by Vanessa Williams. The first message emphasized voting rights. The second emphasized the important issues of the election. In none of the groupings or message conditions was a measurable increase in voter turnout detected over the uncontacted control group (Green and Karlan, 2006).
 
Another study failed to demonstrate an effect from robocalls using political endorsements. This experiment was conducted during the Texas Republican Primary for State Supreme Court Justice. In this study, hundreds of thousands of Republican voters received a robocall message recorded by popular Republican Governor, Rick Perry. The message encouraged Republicans to turnout for the upcoming election, and to vote specifically for the endorsed nominee. Those who received the robocalls were not measurably more likely to vote than those who did not (Green and Gerber, 2008 p. 83).

So, guys, show me the money.

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Arabs Phone Banking for Obama, And I thought I heard of everything

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This week is bringing the weird and strange.  Monday we heard the Racy Robocall from CA and today we hear that Arabs are phonebanking for Obama from Gaza.

Here is the story:  (Another story is at this link)

(IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority newspaper reported on Sunday that Arab residents of Gaza are randomly calling Americans at home in hopes of persuading them to vote for Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama in next month's US presidential election.

The article in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, first noted and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, quotes a young man from the Hamas-controlled Gaza region as saying, "We dial random numbers and try to call people [in the United States] without knowing their identity or their affiliation...." He reportedly uses "Internet sites that allow making free calls... in order to use them for the campaign supporting Obama."

The Al-Hayat Al-Jadida article said, "Most of the Palestinians feel hatred towards USA, whose administrations have always stood by Israel...." The Gaza-based Obama campaigner, Ibrahim Abu Jayyab, "said that a large number of Palestinians dislike their activity..." Those PA residents "do not see any difference between the American politicians [Obama and Republican candidate Sen. John McCain] because of the hostility that they feel towards America," the report explained.

"But [Abu Jayyab's] hope is that their activity will have some impact [in support of Obama]," according to the newspaper report.

Previous Support From Gaza
Abu Jayyab's freelance phone campaign for Obama in the last weeks of the American presidential race has not been the first time the Illinois senator has gotten such help. An Al-Jazeera TV report during the Democratic primaries featured Abu Jayyab as well, when he was busy organizing calls to American voters to persuade them to vote for Obama over then-candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Other types of assistance have also been forthcoming from Gaza. In July of this year, Pamela Geller of the Atlas Shrugs blog revealed documents purporting to show that the Obama campaign received nearly $30,000 from two brothers living in Rafiah, in Hamas-controlled Gaza, during 2007.

Earlier, during an April 2008 interview with WABC radio and WorldNetDaily, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's Gaza-based political advisor Ahmed Yousef said, "Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle."

At the time, McCain commented, "I think it is very clear... why [Hamas] would not want me to be president of the United States, so if Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly."

Obama campaign spokespeople excoriated McCain and noted repeatedly that Obama has called Hamas a terrorist organization worthy of condemnation. In an interview with The Atlantic shortly thereafter, Obama warned people in the Middle East who were enthusiastic over his candidacy not to be "confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security."

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