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List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by GHFigs »

jsundquist wrote: post #3

Very depressing. Almost without any exception (I admit there are a couple) every single for or against can be determined by how much money they get from the computer industry(Against) or from the Music / Movie industry (For). All of this happens across party lines...

I'm having trouble reconciling this assertion with the fact that I can open the submission, sort by "online/internet" and it seems that those in the supporters column receive substantially larger amounts of money from "online/internet" than do those opposed.

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by adamtaylor »

GHFigs wrote: post #21
jsundquist wrote: post #3

Very depressing. Almost without any exception (I admit there are a couple) every single for or against can be determined by how much money they get from the computer industry(Against) or from the Music / Movie industry (For). All of this happens across party lines...

I'm having trouble reconciling this assertion with the fact that I can open the submission, sort by "online/internet" and it seems that those in the supporters column receive substantially larger amounts of money from "online/internet" than do those opposed.

I agree. TV/Movie money seems like a pretty good predictor of vote, but online/internet money much less so. But I'd still like to see an x-y plot with each congressperson a point, and TV/Movie money on one axis, online/internet money on the other, with each point colored by their vote. Then you could really see how separable the two populations are.

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by tst »

padraigk wrote: post #14
fauldsh wrote: post #13

Wish there was a way to view who funded them more, basically ($TV|Movie) - ($Online|Internet)

I wish the table of underlying data was available so that a logistic regression could be run to see whether variables like campaign contributions do indeed predict support for SOPA after age and number of years served have been partialled out.

The data is pretty easily accessible as JSON - however, here's the data I used: http://pastebin.com/nRYv40U8

Firstly, a boxplot with the quotient of entertainment contributions to entertainment & internet contributions.

http://i.imgur.com/FWQWy.png

You can see quite easily that there's a difference which is also significant (95%, t = -4.73).

I've also done a logistic regression correcting with age, party (is_democrat), seniority and quota of contributions (quota_ent).

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       support |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]  
  -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
           age |   .0258551   .0358136     0.72   0.470    -.0443382    .0960485
   is_democrat |  -1.252883   .6243361    -2.01   0.045    -2.476559   -.0292067
     seniority |  -.0262688   .0381962    -0.69   0.492     -.101132    .0485943
     quota_ent |   5.839435   1.447732     4.03   0.000     3.001933    8.676938
         _cons |  -1.968467    2.01512    -0.98   0.329    -5.918029    1.981096
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The AUC is 0.8089 which is quite okay. Furthermore, it would be interesting to test whether location is a significant factor.

Edit: @adamtaylor: Here's a scatter plot with each contribution, transformed with log(1 + x) for readability: http://i.imgur.com/MRciL.png

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by sgaither »

GHFigs wrote: post #18
sfaruque wrote: post #5

It's sad to see that for almost ever 1 SOPA opposing member on the list, there are about 4 supporting members.

The site does not list every member of Congress.

"...every congressmember who supports..."

There's listings by state and by bill...so everyone in the House is at: http://sopaopera.org/sopa/

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by Gormo »

jsundquist wrote: post #9
fecklessyouth wrote: post #7

Biggest surprise among supporters: Al "Net Neutrality is the 1st Amendment issue of our time" Franken. Among opponents: Bachmann.

Sadly the support for it is directly connected to where they get their money from (For democrats and republicans). Here is Bachmann's top sources of donations: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0002... Notice no Movie/Music Industry in the top 5 Then here is Franken's: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0002... Time Warner is his number one supporter. I would imagine that th…

> Sadly the support for it is directly connected to where they get their money from (For democrats and republicans).

Chicken or egg?

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by _delirium »

tst wrote: post #23
padraigk wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the table of underlying data was available so that a logistic regression could be run to see whether variables like campaign contributions do indeed predict support for SOPA after age and number of years served have been partialled out.

The data is pretty easily accessible as JSON - however, here's the data I used: http://pastebin.com/nRYv40U8 Firstly, a boxplot with the quotient of entertainment contributions to entertainment & internet contributions. http://i.imgur.com/FWQWy.png You can see quite easily that there's a difference which is also significant (95%, t = -4.73). I've also done a logistic regression correcting with age, party (is_democrat…

Hmm, that scatterplot suggests a less straightforward relationship; the for/against dots look like they plausibly came from slightly different distributions, but not very much different ones.

Re: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

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Post by GHFigs »

sgaither wrote: post #24
GHFigs wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site does not list every member of Congress.

"...every congressmember who supports ..." There's listings by state and by bill...so everyone in the House is at: http://sopaopera.org/sopa/

I should have been clearer. I mean that lists presented on the front page aren't necessarily reflective of the whole voting Congress. One can just as easily say for every opposing member there are twenty whose opinion is unknown, which I think carries a different connotation.
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