As we wind down through these last few hours people look for everything they can think of that might provide an edge. Sometimes we wind up doing things that are counter productive in our anxiety and eagerness.
That is happening now with some of the phone calls being made on behalf of Obama. I and my staff field daily the calls into a local Democratic Party office in Ohio and one complaint we’re hearing a lot of is about Obama phone calls. Calls to people’s homes while they’re trying to sleep or eat, calls being made to their cell phones which they will have to pay for. For folks with a low income that’s not an insignificant issue. Another is calls to elderly people who have trouble getting to the phone.
(more on the flip)
I’ve had more than one person call say they intended to vote for Obama until this started happening and now they’re so mad they won’t. So I’m posting this here in the hopes that someone a the upper levels of the Obama campaign and the various Labor and 527 organizations who are doing this and realize that their efforts may well be hurting Obama rather than helping. More than one person has said they’ll vote against whoever calls them last.
I tend to believe this kind of phone calling is a bit like the admirals who thought battleships would win the war at sea in WW II, that is until Pearl Harbor showed that aircraft carriers were better. In this election it’s face to face and door knocking that matters.
So take a break on the phone calls especially to cell phones, OK?