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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Robocalls: How Do You Deal With Them?

Is your phone ringing and ringing?

Lately it seems like there's only Ohio voters in this presidential election. And the candidates are doing everything possible to talk to us. They visit, they send us letters and they call. Boy do they call. In our house, the phone rings from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sometimes it rings several times in an hour.  The caller ID shows local numbers, numbers from other parts of the country and my personal favorite 1. That's right just the number 1. And you can't block the number 1. I tried. Sometimes they're political parties, sometimes they're the politicians or their wives (Ann Romney robocalled us one time), sometimes they are survey takers from Quinnipiac University and other university researchers. Is there a way to make it just stop? We're …

Carl Jensen

2:18 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

My wife turned our phone off this Morning, after literally getting political robocalls every couple minutes. The sheer volume of calls is astonishing and annoying. I am greatful for our cell phone this time of year   more ›

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