If you want to fool me? Lie properly.

I just received an automated campaign phone call thinly disguised as an opinion poll. It asked two questions: if I think being in power for 18 years is too long for any government and if I think 30 some police officers should be hired to combat the increase in crime since the last election. As a policy survey, this is completely useless to any political party at this the eve of the election. Team Burnaby, for whom this phone call was made, had called half a dozen of times to ask about and for my vote in the last two weeks. I have heard their pitches and have been patient. Now comes this insincere and underhanded, not to mention impersonal, phone call, I am glad I have already decided against them. If I had decided to vote for them, this phone call would certainly turn me against them. If they are trying to get my vote by deceit, what will they do should they be in power? If they want to lie to me, at the very least they should come to my door and lie to my face. A record voice and ‘press 1 for yes, 2 for no” is all that they can do? They cannot even lie properly. I did not dislike them before, just think their plans unclear and irresponsible fiscally; now I am hoping every single last one of them loses tomorrow. They can wait another eighteen years for all I care.