The Full Swing State Experience

Mon, October 27, 2008 - 9:55 AM

There are advantages and disadvantages to living in battleground states.

Advantage: battleground state voters get an actual say in choosing the next president. No matter how I vote in Maryland next week, Barack Obama will win my home state handily.

Disadvantage: battleground state voters get an actual say in choosing the next president. Which means they are subjected to an unending barrage of television ads, junk mail and -- worst of all -- the flood of dinnertime robo-calls.

An anti-robo call group has been cataloging the robo-calls the presidential campaigns and political parties have unleashed in key swing states.

They're worth a listen. And before you say you'd be willing to trade a real say in the presidential election for relative peace in this final week of campaigning, try playing some of these calls at random while eating dinner.

--Sean Mussenden