Here's what the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call FAQ said:

Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?

A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls. You may still receive calls from political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors or companies with which you have an existing business relationship.

And with that, we saw a wave of calls to add politicians to the FTC's "Do Not Call" rules.

Columnist Harry Crytzer of Pennsylvania is part of household that includes both Democrats and Republicans, which meant double the calls. He wrote in the Valley News Dispatch (via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

"The problem I have with these taped messages is both the quantity and the tone of them as the races came to their conclusion. As the number increased, the urgency also increased, and it was easy to see why some voters getting this same type of calls may become confused on what the election issues really are. It peaked with us when we had nearly 10 messages on Election Day, some almost demanding our vote to save the country."

The irritation was nationwide. "That was a courtesy call," said the receptionist at the office of the candidate who made a recorded call to Steven Snyder in Illinois. "No, that wasn't a courtesy," Snyder told her. Mr. Snyder received the call from the Sam Cahnman state representative campaign office on his cell phone, and it ate up his minutes, reported the State Journal-Register. Snyder got angry enough to call the number that appeared on his cell phone's caller ID to complain.

Calls to cell phones, even if they're not sales calls, may be a violation of the FTC rules.

Republican Representative John Doolittle of Sacramento, California (who narrowly won re-election after some Jack Abramoff-related scandals) promised to focus more on his constituents this time around. That includes working with Democrats to pass new "Do Not Call" legislation to stop political calls: "Such 'robocalls' placed by the National Republican Congressional Committee in Doolittle's race, independent of his campaign, were criticized as unfair and damaging by the Brown [Doolittle's competitor] campaign," said the Sacramento Bee. Doolittle told the Bee that he didn't like getting politcal calls anymore than his constituents did.

CBS 4 Boston reports that automated political calls are already banned in New Hampshire. The statewide rule only covers pre-recorded calls to numbers on the federal "Do Not Call" list.