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Finally someone has recognized why we elect our Presidents based on primitive emotions and not reasoned discourse [Oct. 20]. After 50 years of voting for both Democratic and Republican Presidents, in 2004 I watched dumbfounded as Ohio, which had suffered the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, voted Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George W. Bush as the alpha...
Forget about campaign posters, or emails, or leaflets, or door-to-door canvassing. The last two weeks of this election season, as one Ohio congressman put it, are going to be all about "robo-mania...
...dialing and message playback weren't perfected until the late 1980s. Since then, thanks to improved technology and decreased cost, the campaign tactic has become the leading method to reach voters. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of American households in battleground states like Ohio and Florida received robo-calls in the final weeks of the 2006 midterm elections, with some voters receiving as many as nine calls...
...course, the technology can sometimes backfire. In March, more than 5,000 residents of Ohio's Cuyahoga County received robo-calls between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. because of faulty programming. That kind of mistake, as one pundit points out, could swing an election in entirely the wrong...
...expendable. Can you trust her?" In May, the Minnesota Family Council recorded messages that used the words "anal and oral sex" in an effort to defeat a bill for sex education in school; ironically, the organization received complaints from parents whose children had answered such calls. In March, one Ohio man posted a video on YouTube pleading with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to stop calling his home. (He still receives calls...