Two years ago on the eve of '04 elections the Bush/Cheney email list blasted out an email to its list demanding that their supporters turn on their answering machine to record phone calls from Democrats that would demean the troops, religious people and any other strawman that the right-wing had constructed over the last 40 years. It was a ballsy move because when that email went out the RNC and groups working to elect Bush were dumping millions of dollars into negative robocalls into districts and swing states around the country. Anyone who's ever worked a campaign knows that it's Republicans who blast sewage through phone lines hoping to depress turnout and turnoff unaffiliated Dem leaning voters.

It's a fairly easy story for the media to tell since Independent expenditures are now required to be filed every 24 hours and since every election there are isolated local reports of voters being woken up in the evening or getting a nasty call about a Democratic candidate. In 2002 we found out that they were actually using their robocalls to jam Democratic GOTV phone lines in New Hampshire. In the last few days there have been reports of malicious political phone calls around the country. The Washington post reports:

In various places, voters complained yesterday about a deluge of automated phone calls from candidates and party committees, generating at least two Federal Election Commission complaints from Democratic voters in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Some voters reported receiving up to seven calls per day, including calls in the middle of the night.

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