That wasn't a crank call. It was probably a robodialer. If that doesn't prove that these tea parties aren't grassroots, I don't know what could. Those phone calls are fairly expensive, and I guarantee you that they're not being sent to everyone (that would be REALLY expensive). Instead, they're being sent to targeted voters... except doing the targeting is expensive too.
This only drives the point home that John Stewart made: they're confusing tyranny with losing. Apparently the people behind these tea parties just can't accept that they lost and the election is over, because it seems they're now using standard campaign tactics to promote these things.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Yeah, I got that same call the other day. I started to mount a decent argument, but the dude hung up. At least when I get calls from California Republicans, they can actually debate.
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So were these real live people? That's a little less expensive than a pre-recorded message, but there's no way in hell they have enough volunteers for two TFPers in two different markets to both get one of these calls. That means they're probably paying people to fill call centers. And they still have to pay for the phone lines, the targeting, etc.