I think our Congress could pull off a simple change in election law that would both prevent annoying (and often deceptive) political Robocalls and possibly even provide lots of new jobs at the same time. How?
Simply make a clarification in the Do Not Call statute: Political speech is protected from this restriction currently, which is correct. However, it can be argued that robocalls take the definition of "speech" too far, to the point of automatically intruding upon our homes and persons. You can't disturb the peace even though you have freedom of speech: there are limits. The Do Not Call registry was formed within this context.
But political activism should still be allowable via telephone just as it is via knocking on doors. Fortunately, we don't have robots knocking on doors for Bill Frist yet. Restricting that activity to live humans (if his supporters can be referred to as such) both limits the extent of interruptive marketing and improves its quality: people would have some difficulty misrepresenting themselves and lying in person (although we've all seen it). It's also possible to look through your keyhole and see who it is and ignore them...something I always do and I find works better than caller ID.
Therefore my proposal is that we limit political telephone calls to being made directly by living American citizens, not recordings of them. (We don't want foreign influence in our electoral process, so those call centers in India are right out.) Robots will not be enabled with the Do Not Call Registry exception. I think this passes Constitutional muster, and it passes the sanity test. Humans, unlike robots, are able to answer questions such as "who the hell are you?" and requests to be placed on a do-not-call list, not to mention providing supporting details on claims.
Many political activists are paid (not much, but still) for their work on campaigns, and allowing them to be replaced by robots isn't exactly recycling campaign donation money back into our economy. This regulation will help create non-political jobs as well, as call center infrastructure will stop being offshored at the rapid pace it has.
Prosecuting absues of robocalling in the recent election is a priority of course, but addressing the inherent systemic problems with that entire category would be beneficial both to the political process, to our peace and privacy, and to our economy.