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Q: How can you tell if you're being robo-called by Mitt Romney, or receiving a call by the actual candidate himself.
A: You can't.
It's the weekend before the Republican primary here in America's ...
by Exclamation Point Brian
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on Sat Mar 31, 2012 at 02:24 PM PDT
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After hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites have dedicated themselves for over two weeks now to a mutually accepted code of respectful activism, the outside agitators have finally appeared – and ...
by jorogo
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on Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 06:49 PM PST
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Cross-posted from Sum of ...
by SumOfChange
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on Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 04:32 PM PST
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(I apologize that this will be short, but I wanted to get it out there to see to what extent other people here may be getting the same thing.)
...with an anti-choice, anti-Obama push poll robo-call.
by Chico David RN
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on Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 08:00 PM PDT
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I keep getting robo-calls here in Colorado. They are all really sick calls and afterwards they always speed through the toll-free number for the RNC. I wrote it down and call it and give my own robo-...
by COwoman
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on Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 09:27 AM PDT
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Over at TPM Greg Sargent is reporting an inspiring story. In Lake County Indiana, call-center ...
by Mae
22 comments
on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 03:15 PM PDT
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I kid you not. I'm in Tallahassee, and I just got a robo-call from Saxby Chambliss, virtual hat in hand, "humbly" asking for my vote. (I admit that it felt good to yell at the recording, "When have ...
by dkistner
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on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 08:59 AM PDT
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The following is an open letter I wrote to Senator McCain regarding the attack campaign aimed at linking Barack Obama to Bill Ayers in what I see as an unethical attempt to manipulate and ...
by Michael Hutchinson
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on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 04:06 AM PDT
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Huffington post is asking readers to flood senators' and congressmens' offices with phone calls demanding they denounce the Obama smear robo-calls. Take nothing for granted ; ...
by robertacker13
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on Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 01:16 PM PDT
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Kaboom! Here's the script for Obama's robo-call that puts the hammer down on McCain's own ...
by VirginiaDem
28 comments
on Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 09:40 PM PDT
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My husband wrote this diary about how we can help John McCain with his robo-call outreach, since he has a problem with funds right now. We can help spread the word so everyone knows just what kind ...
by karenc13
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on Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Via ABC
Well, another relatively sane conservative trying to escape from the vortex of bigotry, fascism and pure ...
by Calouste
76 comments
on Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 06:05 PM PDT
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Cross-posted at Facing South -- your source for news, politics and trends in the changing South
In the last week, Kay Hagan -- ...
by ProgressiveSouth
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on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31 PM PDT
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The following is the latest installment in the ongoing controversy surrounding Women's Voices Women Vote, first surfaced ...
by ProgressiveSouth
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on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Women's Voices Women Vote, a nonprofit group with [http://www.npr.org/news/images/2008/may/01/wvwvchart.html deep ties to Hillary Clinton], is at it again, creating voter confusion in West Virginia ...
by davidkc
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on Sat May 10, 2008 at 06:08 AM PDT
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The following is an update on where our investigation into illegal and deceptive election practices and Women's Voices Women Vote stands. A special thank you to the DailyKos community for paying ...
by ProgressiveSouth
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on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:16 PM PDT
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I am a registered Democrat who lives in North Carolina. I have a habit of never answering my phone, I let the caller leave a message on my machine (unless it's my mom, my wife or one of my kids, ...
by Morlock
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on Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:23 AM PDT
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The voter suppression scandal involving Women's Voices Women Vote continued to grow yesterday, as the North Carolina NAACP filed a formal complaint of possible voter suppression against the group, ...
by davidkc
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on Sun May 04, 2008 at 06:15 AM PDT
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Any one who has visited Facing South , TPM or dailykos is well aware the irregularities surrounding Women' Voices Women's Vote group and the ...
by shpilk
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on Sat May 03, 2008 at 12:28 PM PDT
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As the voter suppression scandal involving Women's Voices Women vote continues to escalate, the group appears to be in serious CYA/spin mode. The WVWV board is reportedly having an emergency meeting;
by davidkc
13 comments
on Sat May 03, 2008 at 10:58 AM PDT
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