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New Budget Grants Debt Collectors the Right to Bombard Student Borrowers With Robocalls

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2015 Debt collectors will be allowed to harass student loan borrowers with unlimited automated calls and text messages -- even when asked to stop. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FactCheck Presents the Biggest Whoppers of Campaign ’08

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2008 Time to relive the magic that was the 2008 presidential campaign -- one big, outrageous prevarication at a time. FactCheck.org delivers the "Whoppers of 2008," courtesy of both Team McCain and Obama HQ. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Callers Walk in Protest

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2008 Robocalls are illegal in Indiana, so John McCain and friends paid to have a local call center phone voters. The campaign's script was upsetting to some of the center's workers, who decided to miss out on a paycheck rather than read it, so they got up and left. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Week in the ‘Real America’

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Oct 22, 2008 What struck me during my week in Appalachian Ohio was how different this was from the America of the McCain-Palin campaign, a divided place where the Republicans pit one part of the country against another with vicious robocalls at the dinner hour. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Team McCain Launches Ayers-Themed ‘Robocall’ Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2008 During Wednesday night's debate, Barack Obama told John McCain that the McCain campaign's intense focus on Obama's ties to former Weatherman Bill Ayers "says more about your campaign than it does about me." Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )