Dial F for fear how desperate is Labor

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It should be dial D for DESPERATION  or would that be dial L for LIES

 A million calls to scare people about Tony Abbott:

Labor strategists have embarked on an under-the-radar telephone blitz aiming for 1 million personal calls by election day, in the hope of turning around their flagging campaign with under a fortnight to go.

Internal records from the Labor campaign, obtained by Fairfax Media, reveal the party machine has placed its confidence in the direct marketing approach, making 865,241 telephone calls to marginal seat voters since the election race began less than a month ago.

The 1 million-plus call target represents a tenfold increase on the number rung by Labor in the entire 2010 campaign.

Many of the calls are being made by MPs and candidates as well as volunteers, replicating an American campaign technique.

[*crikey*mate*]

and?

What's the difference between doing that,, letterbox drops, a gazillion signs on every street corner, door knocking, TV or radio commercials, getting a stall in a shopping centre etc?

It's a marjeting strategy, what's so wrong with it?

Telemarketing is big business, many people with something to sell, a message to get across etc do this, why should a political party be exempt?

[lurker17260]

How is that any different from Abbott popping up on my FaceBook page asking me to like him?

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@lurker17260 wrote:

How is that any different from Abbott popping up on my FaceBook page asking me to like him?

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I take it that its OK for RUDD to popup on my Facebook... That would be OK in your world would it?   

I notice that the LNP voters dont  complain and complain and complain about Rudd popping up everytime you go to Facebook and we dont make a topic about it.

[lurker17260]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@lurker17260 wrote:

How is that any different from Abbott popping up on my FaceBook page asking me to like him?

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I take it that its OK for RUDD to popup on my Facebook... That would be OK in your world would it?   

I notice that the LNP voters dont  complain and complain and complain about Rudd popping up everytime you go to Facebook and we dont make a topic about it.

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No, it's not, and no it wouldn't.  I would be equally annoyed if Rudd appeared, but he hasn't so I'm not (as yet)