How Republicans Use Robo Calls To Try To Steal Elections
Posted by Kombiz Lavasany on December 20, 2007 at 04:00 PM
Today TPMMuckracker has more excerpts from former GOP operative Allen Raymond's upcoming book. In this excerpt Allen talks about how Republicans bombarded Democrats with racist phone calls in order to drive down turnout in Rush Holt's congressional race in 2002.
"Oh," I said, quickly doing the polarizing-voter math in my head. "How about 'angry black man'?""Yeah, that sounds good. What's his voice sound like?"
So I cued up one particular actor's CD on my computer and put the phone to the speaker. The track I played was one in which the actor was deliberately playing up a street gang character.
After listening for a few seconds, Blakely said, "That's the guy!"
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