How to Handle Political Telemarketing?

TheOtherChimeraTwin writes "Slashdot has touched on telemarketing in the past. The No Call lists work pretty well for me except for a flood of political calls. They guys use automated dialers with recorded messages and use bogus caller id information, calling back multiple times. Political surveys are done by real people, but they hang up on me if I stray from answering their questions. Does anyone have a solution better than just hanging up on these slime? I'd just vote for their opponent, but sometimes I'm getting called by both sides. The distraction of these calls is annoying and the problem is only going to get worse."

Comments

Re:Both sides?

[Valdrax]

The problem is that third parties are not viable in the US due to the way our electoral system works. A combination of the electoral college with its winner-take-all votes for each state ensures that at a national level only two parties can survive. Only a handful of time in American history has a third party won, and in doing so it replaced one of the other two parties. Never has the US had a coallition government because the very structure of the system prevents it.

So, I'll vote for one of the two major parties, and you can vote for a Libertarian, a Green, a cartoon character, or Santa Claus for all the good it will do you. The math doesn't allow for change except in periods of turmoil and extreme weakness by one of the two parties.

Re:The "You voted for them" double think

[Ohreally_factor]

Markus,

I dig everything you're saying. Could I ask a personal favor, though? Would you stop using the term "sheeple"? Use anything else: morons, idiots, even just sheep. For some reason it just really grates on me, and makes me imagine you as a 14 year old, which I know you're not. Most everything else you have to say is insightful, but that one word. . . gah! It's not clever, it's just dumb.

Maybe I'm over reacting. Carry on.