1) Campaigns have algorithms identifying probable supporters, and you're more likely to be called by causes you support. To vote against your own desires just because the ads are annoying would really be cutting off the nose to spite the face.
2) I would have to stay on the phone long enough to find out for sure what they support. Admittedly, if they start by saying, "This is Jerry Brown" in this election, it's not difficult, but it's not always that easy.
3) This may sound ridiculous, but I've heard of actual attempts to take advantage of this irritation by packaging annoying canned calls as if they supported the opposition.
Once there was a hard-fought legislative primary here with three candidates, all of whom called asking for voting preferences, since there was little demographic data that could be used to base this on. I finally took to answering, "We're planning on voting against any candidate who phones us more than once," and boy did they hang up quick and not call back. We did, too.
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Date: 2010-11-01 04:25 am (UTC)1) Campaigns have algorithms identifying probable supporters, and you're more likely to be called by causes you support. To vote against your own desires just because the ads are annoying would really be cutting off the nose to spite the face.
2) I would have to stay on the phone long enough to find out for sure what they support. Admittedly, if they start by saying, "This is Jerry Brown" in this election, it's not difficult, but it's not always that easy.
3) This may sound ridiculous, but I've heard of actual attempts to take advantage of this irritation by packaging annoying canned calls as if they supported the opposition.
Once there was a hard-fought legislative primary here with three candidates, all of whom called asking for voting preferences, since there was little demographic data that could be used to base this on. I finally took to answering, "We're planning on voting against any candidate who phones us more than once," and boy did they hang up quick and not call back. We did, too.