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One phone call doesn't make a difference, just like one vote or one protester. But they will notice a flood of voicemails and letters if they care about re-election. I have been thinking about this... if they lobbyists pay a better severance package than the government, politicians won't care about re-election. So, it is just a matter of how much. This is why we pay politicians so much salary... so they'll want the job enough to work for their re-election and not need to take side money. And I think the lobbyists can't afford to buy them outright because they'd have to cover all the future lobbyist money that the politician would have made if re-elected. As such, I like term limits, but I'm realizing that they create lame ducks. If we had a one-term limit for president, the sitting president would *never* be accountable to voters.