This Is What Answering Machines Were Made to Screen For

Far more annoying than all of the political advertisements airing on television is the never ending parade of automated phone calls. Given the amount of money spent on this sort of advertising, I suppose someone has decided it is effective, but I can't imagine that it is. The calls are annoying, and I don't recall ever listening to more than 10 seconds of one. It seems bizarre to me that anyone is going to decide to vote for candidate X based on having received one of these calls.