As someone who was alive at the time, trust me - it had nothing to do with polls. The winner was "not Carter" - beyond that nothing mattered.

I suppose that simply being honest and ethical so that you don't have to fear FOIA requests is just too difficult?

Dude, you are clueless on multiple levels. First, "spoofing" caller ID is normal - the ability to tell the phone company (this is a *high* level overview) what your number is when making outbound calls when using a non-POTS line. Due to the way the phone network works this can't easily be changed. And companies have done this for decades, it's not something new. Big multi-line companies typically want outbound calls to come from a single switchboard number.

Second, Rachel from card services works domestically:

http://orlando.craigslist.org/...

Since that'll go away, I'm going to paste it here:

Fronters and Closers Come be a Part of the Best L.I. Sales Team!!! (Downtown Orlando)
compensation: Top pay in the industry

We are in the business of helping consumers with interest rate reduction.
We are completely computerized (no typing required), Fully Licensed,
We will pay for your, State of Florida Telemarketing Salesperson License.

Job position: Fronter/Qualifier
Your job responsibility as a Fronter (Qualifier) will be, gather the client's contact information, see if the client qualifies for our services, and then transfer to a closing manager to complete the sale.

Closers job responsibity and requirements:
Must have 2 years of interest rate reduction sales experience an order to qualify for this position.
Your responsibility will be to explain thoroughly to the client the services we offer,
explain the process in which these services will be provided, and to transfer them to a verification officer to complete their enrollment.

If you are an experienced closer who has been in the industry for at least 2 years and you are ready to come and work with a company that is 100% legit and provide a great workplace for you to grow and make a great paycheck to take home every single week for all of your hard,
then this is the call you need to make to receive an immediate interview!

This is a fantastic job opportunity! Top pay in the industry! Non-stop leads all day!
Work hours are Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m.,
Friday hours: 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (No Weekends)!

Paychecks Every Friday with Company Lunch provided!

Great work atmosphere, nice work stations and work space, beautiful building!
Please call by phone for an interview!

I'll tell you why I get them: I'm on the Do Not Call list. Yes, these people are brazen enough that they apparently get the list and use it as a calling list. Our government is too stupid to track them down and shut them down. But, don't worry, we're taking care of Dennis Hastert for making withdrawals from his own bank account.

"We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice."

Pro-tip: act as if something did happen and get another job quickly. In their eyes the problem is that they were exposed, not that they did this in the first place. They will almost certainly still do it.

I buy mostly Apple products. I'll let you in on a secret: I do it because the stuff tends to just work without any bullshit. Honestly, 20 years ago I lived for the challenge of making stuff work. Now, I have bigger fish to fry and hobbies that are more fun.

So, yeah, I pay extra when I buy stuff from Apple. Extra money, that is. Well, "extra money up front". It saves me money in the long run as my time is my most valuable asset (even when monetized) so it's worth it.

My favorite kind!

It wouldn't be Linus - it would be someone like Brad Pitt or Mark Wahlberg. Of course, the actor would wear glasses to take on a "nerd" persona.

Yeah, my band director in high school was pretty much a dick sometimes and had a reputation for being difficult to deal with.

We also won all but one of the 10 or so contests that we entered in my first year in marching band, getting 2nd place in the one where we didn't get 1st place. That included winning the state championship in our class.

These two facts are not unrelated.

Part of the reason that Linux exists and is so successful is Linus' personality and work ethic. I don't think he's out to make new friends in the programming world, but he is very successful at what he's actually doing.

Al Gore. Yes, Al Gore who now owns multiple mansions. His mansion in Nashville was found to have 10x the energy usage of my house while being roughly 3x the size. In other words, he burns more than 3x as much energy per square foot than I do.

He has a private jet.

He's not living as if climate change were an emergency, why should anybody believe him?

<input type="date"> still doesn't work. Basic html5 stuff.

Come. On.

No. This is crony capitalism. Free trade is great for everyone, with government's role being to make sure it stays "free". Nobody outside of the two major political parties will tell you that crony capitalism is good for anybody except the cronies.

Sigh. Crony Capitalism is the antithesis of Free Markets. Always.

To be fair, few people currently in the federal government have heard of the Constitution, much less have familiarity with the various parts of it.

See here:

http://popehat.com/2015/05/29/...

(Note the writer is a former federal prosecutor)

From the article:

"We imagine law enforcement operating like we see on TV: someone commits a crime, everyone knows what the crime is, law enforcement reacts by charging them with that crime. But that's not how federal prosecution always works. Particularly with high-profile targets, federal prosecution is often an exercise in searching for a theory to prosecute someone that the feds would like to prosecute. There is an element of creativity: what federal statute can we find to prosecute this person?"

Someone wanted to go after Hastert, they found a way.