What? No Robocalls?
During the last major election (two years ago), my answering machine recorded as many as 14 messages in a day in support of the candidates. Almost all of these sounded like pre-recorded messages.
I blame the outrageous number of calls on the fact that I know people who are seriously involved in both the Democratic and Republican parties. By involved, I mean either volunteer or work for the parties.
Worse, I agree with both on enough issues that they feel comfortable signing me up with the local party headquarters.
This meant that two years ago I got called so often I dreaded walking up to the machine after work and sorting out the calls that matter (very few) from the messages that basically accused a candidate of eating babies.
This year I've gotten barely any recorded messages. I'm not complaining about this. I've had a few election related calls but they mostly seem to have been from real live people. In some cases they ask for money for the campaign, in others they ask for my vote, but, basically they've been very polite.
I like to think that this is because the various campaigns have learned something, but I don't know.