Monday, February 18, 2008

Half tempted not to vote tomorrow

My state's primary is tomorrow, and up until today I was completely stoked about voting. But tonight my phone won't stop ringing and it's getting annoying. There are entire customer service buildings in Bangalore, India that don't get as many calls as I've received today.

Nineteen messages were left on my phone during the work hours, and (obviously) those are only the callers that left a message. Who knows how many other calls were received? And since getting home an hour ago, we've received four more calls.

I can't bring myself to answer them, in part because it's do damn annoying and in part because I'm afraid if a call was from Obama supporters, I'd be so pissed off I wouldn't cast my vote as planned.

I know getting out the vote is vital, but have the people who run campaigns considered the negative backlash against the constant barrage of calls? Maybe others welcome this sort of intrusion (or at least put up with it), but I think it's a pain in the ass.

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