robocalls

It’s official: Sen. John McCain has committed resources to defend his home state of Arizona.
In the wake of a slew of polls that show the race in the Grand Canyon State tightening in recent weeks, Talking Points Memo reports that several of its Arizona readers reported receiving a McCain campaign robocall today.

There’s a new meme in the presidential race: The Internet is helping expose dirty tricks, enhance campaign accountability and punish the purveyors of dog-whistle sleaze.
Such web luminaries as Arianna Huffington and Micah Sifry pushed that argument this week. The Obama campaign agrees.
On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama’s new-media office launched an initiative to identify and expose [...]

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is establishing himself as the Luca Brasi to Sen. John McCain’s Vito Corleone.
Whenever the situation calls for a hit job, there’s only one goon to which the don turns.
TPM reports Giuliani has lent his voice to what is perhaps the lowest of the McCain campaign’s robocalls — it portrays [...]

The McCain campaign’s robocalls have drawn a lot of attention over the past couple of days.
The phone calls play one of several automated messages about Sen. Barack Obama and are being made in swing states across the country, including Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.
The messages include a slew of dishonest accusations, among them: