I'm not sure what to do about the phone calls. I think that the easy answer is no robocalls, but people do hate the actual calls as well. I get the phone calls at my house as well, so I definitely see the annoyance, but then a part of me thinks "its just a phone call".
I also think that as a guy who has employed these for political use, the reality is it works. (Not saying the robocalls here, but specifically the GOTV calls we did yesterday). We can see the correlation between who we call and who shows up. I would also say that people posting in this thread might be surprised how many votes this can be worth. I talked to a lot of people yesterday and a lot of them would say something like "when is the election?".
I guess the phone calls just aren't that big of a deal to me, so I don't see why some people get so upset. Plus, its an election and they're pretty important to me. So if I get more calls than I like I just don't answer or take the call and move along with my day.
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