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Winning Issues
Will Obama's Net Neutrality Gambit Work?
Nov 10, 2014 5:19 PM CST
The president is searching for victories after some devastating defeats at the polls.
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President Barack Obama isn't waiting to see how a new Republican Senate majority will govern. He's taking the fight to them by seizing on issues that are political winners in the wake of a wave of electoral losses last week.
The most recent example came Monday when Obama infuriated Republicans (and at least one of top fundraiser) by calling on the FCC to support net neutrality, taking a strong position that comes with little political risk. Many in his party support it, it gives him some common ground with Silicon Valley and puts him on the opposite side of Comcast, one of America's least favorite cable companies, whose customer service problems were crystallized in July by a recording of a call-center employee refusing a request to disconnect service.
And just to sum up his aggressive approach, Obama followed the net neutrality statement with a fundraising appeal to his grassroots supporters asking volunteers to "finish what you started" on minimum wage, immigration and climate change. With or without help from Congress, I'm not done making real change for the American people," Obama wrote in the letter sent by Organizing for America ...
