With Nov. 3 racing toward us, it can be tempting to see the 2020 election as a done deal. For months, Joe Biden has consistently and convincingly led Donald Trump in polls. Swing states in the industrial Midwest and Sun Belt appear to be heading Biden’s way, and if you trust the polls, it’s not a leap to imagine him winning 330+ electoral votes.
But what if you shouldn’t trust the polls?
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Both mine and Lisa's standard reply to any call that's not from somebody we know is "Take us off your calling list."
Okay, that's mostly her reply - it takes an Act of Congress to get me to answer a phone.
"Okay, that's mostly her reply - it takes an Act of Congress to get me to answer a phone."
ReplyDeleteHeh
Everybody that knows me already knows who I voted for, the sign in my yard tells everyone else that drives by. Fuck em if they don't like it.
ReplyDeleteJD
I've been getting polsters calling my house..... in Alberta. They were confused and thought the 403 area code was part of florida. Idiots.
ReplyDeleteThey still wanted to know who i was voting for, so I told them i planned to vote for biden multiple times.
They thanked me.
Exile1981
What is this "phone" of which you speak?
ReplyDeleteIt's a device that youngsters use to communicate insipid ideas and push fictionalized stories about their sad little lives. Don't bother with one, they're not worth it.
DeleteWell, first thing you need is a couple of nickles.......
DeleteAfter A lot of Phone calls I finally got Pissed off and answered it and told them them I had already Fuckin voted and to leave me the Fuck alone. Strangely I have received no more phone calls.
ReplyDelete"what if you shouldn't trust the polls?"
ReplyDeleteNo! What a thought. Not trust polls and pollsters? They are all good decent honest people doing their best to keep us informed, as is proper and necessary in a democratic constitutional republic. What sort of monster could possibly think the likes of Frank Luntz or Nate Silver might have some sort of agenda and seek to mislead us?
My LL phone has been ringing 5-6 times a day for the last two months. Between the political, extra medicare insurance and car warranty renewal calls, I finally had to turn the ringer off. some of those political calls were coming in between 8:30-9:00PM. Fooking annoying as hell.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason the impending Trump landslide will come as a "surprise" to the media. Don't know why; it's been obvious to the rest of us for some time now.
ReplyDeleteI answer the phone in Spanish if I don't know the number. They have no idea that I am cussing them out or questioning their heritage. Well, most of the time. Some of them do speak Spanish.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine will say "Just a minute. I will be right back". He then puts the phone down and goes back to what he was doing.
Been getting numerous txt msgs on my cell phone the last couple of weeks, shilling for slow joe. (Matter of fact I got one just now as I was typing this!) I expect these will dry up after today. Suck it, losers.
ReplyDeleteI never answer my landline- it's for outgoing calls only.
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Nope, they will be trying to get that last vote out!
DeleteJuat say, WKRP, aaaand you're on the air... I guarantee they leave you alone
ReplyDeleteMy phone has a "Block this Number" function. It's been used a lot lately.
ReplyDeleteAdd the "Intercept" special information tone at the beginning of your voice greeting on your answering machine-it will trick **some** robocaller machines into thinking your phone number is no longer active and it may take your phone number out of its memory. It does not eliminate all nuisance calls but I'd like to think that some of the less sophisticated robocaller machines get fooled. There was (is??) a $40 gadget called the Zapper that somehow was supposed to do this.
ReplyDeleteFind the "Intercept" SIT here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tone#cite_note-Bellcore-2