Yikes. All 95 who pledged to support Net Neutrality lost yesterday

[charlie]

This is a bummer...

Before Tuesday's midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content.

All of them lost -- and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead.
...

Republican lawmakers largely oppose the idea of Net neutrality. Though a majority of Democratic lawmakers support the issue -- all of the 95 candidates that said they would support Net neutrality on the left-leaning Progressive Change Campaign Committee's website were Democrats -- they have been divided on whether to pass the FCC's proposed legislation.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/03/technology/net_neutrality_election/index.htm?section=money_latest

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk." - RepubliCorp, Inc. (R)

[Occulus]

19. "Sneer." - Broadband Providers, Inc.

[msongs]

2. the lameduck congress better get to work asap nt

[glitch]

3. What an amazing coincidence! nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. +1

[tomp]

5. +2. quite amazing.

[hootinholler]

15. Unbelievable! Stupendous!

I wish I had the money spent for and against data for these races.

-Hoot

[snot]

6. This scares me more more than anything else I've seen for a long time.

We should be very worried -- and activated.

[BlueIris]

18. No kidding.

:wow:

[flamingdem]

7. ouch ouch ouch nt

[JackRiddler]

8. ?! How is this even possible?

[gkhouston]

24. It's Comcastic? n/t

[gkhouston]

9. I wonder how much shadow money that cost. n/t

[WinkyDink]

14. MTE. BIG Money was behind these losses.

[Democat]

10. Democrats are happy to "pledge" support, but where is the legislation?

Talk is cheap and lately Democrats are too wimpy to take action on anything Republicans don't like.

[Poboy]

11. That is astonishing. How big a coincidence does a thing need to be

before we dare utter 'conspiracy'?

[myrna minx]

12. Wow.

:wow:

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. All 95 who took the pledge were Democrats. We didn't lose 95 seats.

Therefore, this claim that all 95 lost must be bogus. I want to see a list.

[charlie]

16. Link to list is in the OP

The article says candidates, not incumbents.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. Aha. I misread. Thanks for the correction. nt

[Occulus]

20. Kicking for awareness of net neutrality n/t

[yodermon]

21. weird.. so none of the sitting Progressive Caucus pledged for this?

since only 1 of them lost their seat and the rest of them won...

[Odin2005]

22. That being a coincidence is pretty much impossible. BASTARDS.

[Uncle Joe]

23. I wonder how much the Citizens United vs FEC decision directly affected these candidates?

Net Neutrality is critically important to our democratic republic, so I wouldn't be surprised to find these champions of the American Peoples' First Amendments Right to be prime targets of the corporate supremacists; which were greatly empowered by the activist Supreme Court's precedent breaking, money is speech decision.

Thanks for the thread, charlie.

[Hello_Kitty]

25. Clearly we need to move to the "center" on this issue!

I mean, it's so obvious that Americans do not want inexpensive and equal access to the internet.

:sarcasm: