Robocalls are JUNK...

Robocalls Aren't Usually Effective

Political scientists and consultants say that taped-voice telephone calls are among the least effective methods of voter persuasion.

Privately, Republican consultants liken that the RNC's massive robocall effort this week to a ball and string toy -- it gives vendors something to do and activists something to think about.

Alan Gerber and Donald Green, Yale profs who study turnout, have written that robocalls "might help you to stretch your resources in ways that allow you to contact the maximum number of people, but don't expect to move them very much, if at all."

Generic robocalls -- those not targeted at specific constituencies -- are worse.

There's an exception. When the calls reinforce a message that a candidate is carrying, then they're not always a bad investment.

But the national McCain campaign is only weakly invested in anti-Obama message on William Ayers and Obama's "terrorist" connections.

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Edmondson orders McCain campaign to stop improper robocalls

Attorney General Drew Edmondson orders Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign to stop making prerecoded automated political telephone calls to Oklahomans that don't comply with federal law.

Edmondson's action was a response to a complaint filed today by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign about so-called "robocalls" allegedly made by McCain's campaign to many Oklahomans in recent days.

The two candidates are among a slate of Republican and Democratic hopefuls campaigning in Oklahoma and 21 other states in presidential preference primaries tomorrow.

A letter to Edmondson from Romney campaign officials said Oklahoma residents had reported that the McCain campaign calls don't provide a telephone number for the originating entity at any time during the call as required by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

"Robo-callers" must provide a telephone number so that Oklahoma residents can contact the source of the call and demand to be removed from call lists.