Voters Not Too Interested in Candidates Who Pledged to Support Net Neutrality

Scott Cleland notes that all 95 congressional candidates who signed a pledge to support Net neutrality lost yesterday. It's not too surprising a result, really, given that a Harmony Institute report posted at the pro-neutrality site SaveMyInternet.com earlier this year admitted that "currently the public likes the way the Internet works. Internet users and businesses generally have a positive relationship with their ISP and believe they can access what they want, when they want it." But it does suggest that, despite all the effort put into portraying Net neutrality as a populist, grassroots cause, it's not really an issue that brings voters to the polls.

Lots more on Net neutrality here, here, and here.

Comments

[Bingo]

I would really like to commend the person that rebranded "Putting the internet under FCC control" as "Net Neutrality".

[Paul]

This.

[Master Control Program]

"What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.?

[Old Mexican]

Scott Cleland notes that all 95 congressional candidates who signed a pledge to support Net neutrality lost yesterday.

It's just coincidence - most voters couldn't care else about net neutrality or Keynesians.

[Lone Wookie]

I can't imagine that more than one in 20,000 voters even knows what Net Neutrality is.

[Coeus]

I can't imagine that more than one in 20,000 voters of its proponents even knows what Net Neutrality is.

There. That seems more accurate.

[John]

Speaking of candidates, how is it that the Republicans keep producing so many MILFs? I give Krist Noem a newly minted Congress Critter from South Dakota.

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=7444

[Old Mexican]

She's very pretty. Her family is very pretty. They're all pretty.

That can't happen!

They must be aliens from outer space!

[John]

She is gorgeous. if you are a Dem, you really have to wonder why the Republicans have her and the new governor of South Carolina and you have Elana Keagan and Hillary Clinton.

[Bingo]

Duh, John, because beauty is a tool of the patriarchy. I thought we already established that in the morning links thread.

[Pro Libertate]

She was good on Firefly.

[John]

For real?

[Pro Libertate]

Nah, I was just making a joke.

[Paul]

She coulda been on Firefly though.

[Pro Libertate]

I thought she looked a little like Jewel Staite.

[Paul]

In the right light she does. I'd like to get Jewel Staite in the right light.

[wingnutx]

I noticed that in a couple of her pics, where she is smiling broadly.

[John]

According to Imadeitupapedia she is owner of some big family farm that is massively on the government tit. I am kind of thinking her commitment to small government will end the day the ag bill comes for a vote.

[Paul]

According to Imadeitupapedia

That's uhh, pretty good.

[Juice]

You really can't be a farmer in the US without being on the govt tit. It's virtually impossible.

[AlmightyJB]

I would still totally hit that.

[Warty]

Soap neutrality

She contends that a soapy washcloth under her arms, between her legs and under her feet is all she needs to get "really clean." On the go, underarm odor is wiped away with a sliced lemon.

[Dagny T.]

This sounds like the kind of thing that would excite you, you unwashed, barefoot cretin.

[Warty]

Oh come on, are you claiming that you don't clean your cooch by rubbing it with a fungusy rag? You don't fool me.

[John]

Dirty fucking hippies. I am sure she probably thinks bedbugs have health benefits to.

[dbcooper]

You've gone to far now Warty. That's vile.

[Bingo]

Right, because carrying around a bag of lemon slices and rubbing them on your armpits is preferable to putting on deodorant. As a bonus you can stick them in your glass of water when you're done.

[Corduroy]

Why not, the French have been doing it that way for decades. Certainly we can all agree that the French are to be imitated in every manner possible.

[Slut Bunwalla]

C'est la vie, mon frer.

[Episiarch]

You really are an animal. I approve.

[JW]

I think I've encountered some of these people. They have about a 10-foot stink radius.

[ChrisO]

I love it. The universal comment from these people quoted in the articles seems to be "I don't think I smell bad." I somehow doubt people in their vicinity agree.

[zoltan]

I don't use soap either; it's unnecessary as I don't have a dirty or unsanitary job or partake in such activities. Warm water is enough to get off any particles that might be harmful. I don't use shampoo and conditioner either; I use a baking soda and apple cider vinegar dilution bi-weekly. I tried to do the no deodorant thing. I used different applications of baking soda, ACV, or coconut oil. It didn't work so I'm back to the deodorant.

People clean themselves too much though.

[?]

I would really like to commend the person that rebranded "Putting the internet under FCC control" as "Net Neutrality".

Send commendations to Columbia professor, Obama campaign adviser, FCC tool, and all-around asshole Timothy Wu.

I hear he's a fan of diarrhea in a Ziploc.

[Xeones]

Noted. I'm'a go pack a hot lunch for him right now.

[joshua corning]

Scott Cleland notes that all 95 congressional candidates who signed a pledge to support Net neutrality lost yesterday.

I am sure the correlation between candidates who support massive government intervention for the internet and candidates who support massive government intervention for the Climate, health care and economy is a high number.

[Democratic Strategist]

If only we could make the internet, climate, health, and economy more like the Aral Sea.

[joshua corning]

If only we could make the internet, climate, health, and economy more like the Aral Sea.

Screw you...i spelled correlation right.

[Corduroy]

At least I get to rub this in my CA friends' noses.

[John]

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2.....alize.html

since we don't ever get any actual drug warriors on here, I would point you to this althouse thread. Juanita is only slightly trolling.

[SugarFree]

Are they all just repeating what they reading DARE pamphlets?

I've never thought much of Althouse, but this: Much as I like decentralized law and the benefits of federal, where there is valid federal law, it supersedes state and local law. That is the constitutional structure. is just stupid. Just because the Commerce Clause has been bent and twisted into a shape that is incomprehensible to intent, doesn't make laws based on it valid.

[Tman]

The whole "stop chaos/maintain status quo" isn't exactly a rallying cry for people who believe in individual liberty.

I don't see how Althouse squares that circle. If she truly believes that it's wrong to prohibit "self medication" for pleasure or whatever, then she should be calling for chaose and a revisit of the SCOTUS decisions involving the commerce clause.

Isn't she a law professor? What is wrong with these people?

[Slashdot / Fark User]

The defeat of net neutrality was all a part of an evil Comcast conspiracy funded by the Koch brothers and Dick Cheney.

[Brett L]

"I would never hurt you baby. Its just that sonofabitch Tea Party makes me so angry."

Thank you , wikiHow for this timely how-to.

[Matrix]

I don't like my ISP... MediaCom, you suck!!

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, cause everyone who voted yesterday had net neutrality on their mind. Did even one of those candidates run on that issue? Did even one of those candidates have a campaign add that mentioned that issue? Correlation zero. Article fail.

[nfl jerseys]

money

[R C Dean]

Correlation zero.

No, correlation 100%. Causation zero.

[jesus]

What AlmightyJB and R C Dean said. Plus, that site only lists Democrats. Is anyone shocked that in an election that favored Republicans, a sub-set of Democrats didn't win? Anyone who tries to draw some conclusion about net neutrality from this has an ideological axe to grind.