In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent.

Network neutrality advocates wanted to regulate broadband provides as public utilities, a step known to insiders as ‘reclassification’. They mounted a successful lobbying campaign, submitting millions of comments to the agency urging a stronger stance. ______________.

They felt their priorities shifting when late last year President Barack Obama deflated the idea of reclassification.

They gained an important ally in November when President Barack Obama endorsed reclassification.

The stronger stance came at the price of increased scrutiny though, and it was found that much of the comments were simply copies of each other.

There are, however, stronger cases to be made than reclassification, and this is what net neutrality advocates are failing to see right now.