Can't wait until the caucus is over
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Funny! I love the phone calls asking who you will vote for in the caucus. I usually throw them off by saying no one because I am registered independent. That usually throws them off and the next question "how likely are you to attend the January caucus?" before they and read off the options I will say "is no chance in hell an option?" :wink:
i'm watching a movie earlier this evening with my wife and son. The phone rings and it's Des Moines mayor Frank Cownie calling on behalf of Berack Obama.
My freaking God, it's New Year's Eve!!!! 1 - I live in Ankeny, what the hell do I care what Frank Cownie thinks and 2 - I thought local politics was non-partisan, therefore, regardless of where you live, Who cares who Frank Cownie is going to vote for Thursday night?
My freaking God, it's New Year's Eve!!!! 1 - I live in Ankeny, what the hell do I care what Frank Cownie thinks and 2 - I thought local politics was non-partisan, therefore, regardless of where you live, Who cares who Frank Cownie is going to vote for Thursday night?
Yeah - wow. The last few presidential nominees that won an Iowa caucus that WASN'T an incumbent president or sitting vice president (ie, a sure win) was John Kerry in 2004, George Bush in 2000, Bob Dole in 1996.
We also threw Tom Harkin up there in '92.
What a list! Oh how proud I am. :skeptical:
Sorry - I don't find the caucuses to be anything special. These decisions are made every bit outside Iowa as they are here. Iowans pay attention and are influenced by national polls and play follow the leader just as much as people from every other state in the union.
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I got a call last night from some voter research council and I asked them do you know what day it is? All I got was, "have a good night, sir"
The way the last 2 days have been, i'm surprised the phone wasn't rigning off the hook Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. God, I really hate politics.
The way the last 2 days have been, i'm surprised the phone wasn't rigning off the hook Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. God, I really hate politics.
You got off lucky - 2 phone calls and a guy from the Obama campaign came to the house!
I was torqued. Dog was going nuts (apparently she doesn't like Obama) and I was pulled away from the Cap One Bowl.
I think unless I recognize phone number on the caller ID or the person at the door, neither will be answered until this weekend. Had I not just been woke up by the door bell and thinking a little quicker I probably would have ignored the jehovah witness at the door Saturday morning too but I made the mistake of opening the door before peeking out the window to see who it was.
Amen to that. In the last 45 minutes there have been 4 phone calls to our house. I didn't answer a single one of them. Two callers left campaign messages on our answering machine and the other two hung up. I can only image what they wanted... :mask:
I CAN'T wait for the caucus to be over. At least for the national election, there will only be a few candidates left and their attention will be spread over the entire U.S., not 15 candidates focused on Iowa! :wideeyed:
Obama's people have been over to our house twice in the last week.
Monday they came over while I was pulling out of the garage and waited for me at the end of my driveway....I kept on going!!!
Ron Paul seems to really like my phone number lately, he's desperate.
I'm a Republican, but I have no freakin' clue whom I've voting for. I've been to the caucas' back when Bob Dole ran and got to admit I liked it. We'll see what happens.
Monday they came over while I was pulling out of the garage and waited for me at the end of my driveway....I kept on going!!!
Ron Paul seems to really like my phone number lately, he's desperate.
I'm a Republican, but I have no freakin' clue whom I've voting for. I've been to the caucas' back when Bob Dole ran and got to admit I liked it. We'll see what happens.
I was back in Iowa for Christmas. I got sick and ended up in front of a TV when not sleeping. I think the political ads made it worse.
I believe that Iowans deserve medals for enduring for months what I was (thankfully) subjected to for only a week.
I believe that Iowans deserve medals for enduring for months what I was (thankfully) subjected to for only a week.
people still use land lines? wow, why? EVERYONE and their mother has a cell phone now. And no one uses land lines for internet, everything is cable, DSL, or better. I have not had a land line and have only used my cell phone for 4 years now...
Unless things have changed since 2003 (from what I learned in my journalism law class), wiretapping laws aren't nearly as strict for cell phones as they are for land lines. This is because you are broadcasting a signal, so someone can potentially "listen in" to your call. I am still very hesitant to do any phone calls that involve any of my personal information for this very reason. Plus it can get very pricey when you burn through all of your minutes.
I have a cell but I keep my land line for local calls (better quality than cell with all the interference you can get in the city sometimes) and also the 911 service is supposedly more reliable (I think someone discussed this in another thread recently.) Plus I use that number whenever I have to fill out something that requires a home phone number because sometimes that is a way your number gets solicted sometimes.
I'm starting to wish I had taken the day off work tomorrow. I work downtown Des Moines which means more traffic, idiots standing out in the cold holding up signs, and the skywalks are sure to be busy too. Would have been worth it just to avoid all that.
I give the phone to one of the kids to answer the pollster's questions. Should help to randomize the results.
