Hire a skywriter to write: "Don't take telephone polls. No, not that kind of telephone poll."
Recruit Jehovah's Witnesses to explain to the retirees how to be politically neutral.
Animate holographic versions of The Lone Gunmen from The X-Files to deactivate only the retiree's phones.
Bury/detonate propaganda bomb with leaflets reading: "Give yourselves up. You can't win. Douglas MacArthur."