Today I had a telephone call from Scarlett Johansson 
. Yep. She says “hi.”
Okay, seriously, does anybody actually listen to automated phone calls urging you to vote for so-and-so? (In this case, she was urging me to vote for Obama.) Once I hear the recording start, I just hang up.
Hmm. I guess that’s a testable question. Previous research has shown that calls from nonpartisan turnout advocates don’t work , but I don’t recall anything offhand about partisan appeals like this one.
I sense a research project coming up…