wkowtv.com - 10/22/2008
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Madison (WKOW) -- There's a new perspective on the now infamous robocalls paid for by the Republican National Committee. Voters in more than 13 states, including Wisconsin are getting calls from people accusing Barack Obama of having ties to terrorists. Some of those calls are made from right ...
bradblog.com - 10/21/2008
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bradblog.com —
Hopefully, soon will come the ACORN "voter fraud"
fraud backlash, though I realize that's still very much...
a hope given the continuous rightwing media's full-throated reporting attempt to punk American democracy in regards this issue. Palm Beach ...
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'One of the Greatest Frauds in Voter History'
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Two Call Center Workers Quitting Jobs Rather Than Recite McCain Ayers Slime
TPM Election Central —
... offices of 1.2.1 Direct Response, a company based in Philadelphia.
"I was working at the call center," Cole said. "We got a campaign ad talking about how Obama had been part of terrorist attacks on the Capitol, the Pentagon and a judge's home and had ties with Bill Ayers.
"Last Thursday, I told them I did not want to read it," Cole said. "They said, 'Either you read it or you go home.' I told them I wasn't going to read it."
A man in Wisconsin quit his call-center job over the Ayers call, too.
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Jesse Lee: 13 Days Out: Giving McCain's Attacks the Contempt They Deserve
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... WKOW (WI): "A local man made dozens of calls bashing Barack Obama, but when the campaign got ugly, he quit his job. Ted Zoromski of Middleton took a job this month at telemarketing firm Sitel, on Madison's west side... Zoromski said, 'This was different than I was told I was going to be saying, and [Sitel] said the script changes on a daily basis.' So Zoromski quit, fed up with what he perceived as scare tactics. The Wisconsin GOP says it had nothing to do with the calls, but says negative ads go both ways. 'This is not really different from any of the other messages we've had ...
McCain's Nasty Campaign Tactics Creating Joblessness
Shakesville —
... and a man in Wisconsin have quit their jobs at call centers rather than read a script that included the message: "Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans." ...
Employees Quit Over Nasty Robocalls
Comments from Left Field —
Just recently, Obama launched a withering jab at McCain saying that it’s pretty remarkable when your own running mate thinks your tactics are too low. He was referring to comments Governor Sarah Palin had made regarding the controversial robocalls going out in battleground states intended to tie Barack Obama to former terrorist Bill Ayers.
While not condemning the robocalls, Palin had suggested that if she could “wave a magic wand,” she wouldn’t be using them. Indeed, there has been some uneasiness regarding the nature of these robocalls due to how particularly nasty they have been.
But it ...
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msnbc.com: Politics 10/22/2008
The Republican nominee was returning Wednesday to the state whose primary he won in 2000 and again earlier this year. But there are signs it is tilting toward Democrat Barack Obama.
Giuliani gets tough on Obama in new robocall —
CNN Political Ticker 10/22/2008
Giuliani is in a new robocall for McCain.
(CNN) – Rudy Giuliani is the star of a new robocall from the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee that seeks to portray Barack Obama as soft on crime.
In the new call, to be blasted ...
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WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/22/2008
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Joe The Plumber is not going away.
Barack Obama took another stab at turning Joe Wurzelbacher to his advantage during a sweep through the Old Dominion.
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