Pre-election Thoughts
The Political Compass is a system which tries to make a more comprehensive mapping of socio-ethical attitudes than the traditional left vs. right, red vs. blue descriptions.
I'd love to see Political Compass results for candidates running for office before voting, and get a picture that's not based on party affiliation, wedge issues, and attack ads. It's too late for the current races, but it might be fun to run the idea up the flagpole for the next election, and see who salutes.
CNET compiled a list showing how federal
legislators voted on technology issues. The Nebraska delegation
comes in well below the middle of the pack at with a tech-friendly
ranking of 37. Of course, because CNET is about computers and the
internet, what they really mean by technology issues
is
information technology issues
. Nebraska has a less than stellar
history on this stuff, going back to the late James Exon and his
ill-fated Communications
Decency Act, an early attempt to censor internet speech.