Robocalls will be a footnote in this election. Particularly the ones that identify the caller (albeit at the end of the call.)
If I had 5 messages for the American people, Robocalls wouldn't make the list. So why are we focusing almost exclusively on them here?
What Joe 6-pack doesn't know:
America doesn't know that Bush vowed to keep Rumsfeld on until the end of his term in 2009.
America doesn't know that the Republicans posted how-to-build-a-nuclear-bomb information on the Internet deliberately in order to give right-wing bloggers access to information hoping that they'd find the missing WMD.
America doesn't know that if they make under $200,000 a year the Democrats won't raise their taxes. Nor that Bush will almost surely veto ANY tax increase whatsoever.
America doesn't know that gas prices are being artificially kept low by the big oil companies in order to help Republican reelection chances and will jump significantly within a month of the election.
America doesn't know that Halliburton is bilking our country of billions of dollars in fraudulent war profits while our death toll in Iraq rapidly approaches the death toll on 9/11.
I'm not saying the robocall issue is completely irrelevant, but to me, it dwarfs in comparison to any of the 5 issues I mentioned. In fact, I could probably think of 5 more without too much trouble. I don't know why we're not focused on GOTV and the most important issues rather than whether a political party should make calls to people on a do-not-call list designed to prevent commercial solicitation.