The "Techie" Vote?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @01:13AM from the they're-just-starting-to-get-it dept.

Ironica writes "This Los Angeles Times article discusses a compelling trend: techies are making their collective voice heard in politics. Quote from the article: "After years as political agnostics, the programmers and engineers who orchestrated the technological revolution of the 1990s are trying to reboot government...They have money, earned during the boom. They have time, found since the bust. And they are using their technological savvy to recruit even casual Internet users to their causes." Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?""

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Re:This reminds me... by ModernGeek · 2003-08-12 02:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

I wish that geeks would form their own party and have a say in gov't. All these basic human rights being taken away isn't acceptable. I'm glad we have someone fighting for us, are there any other people out there that do the same? It's always nice to have a big guy looking out for the little guy like IBM and Open Source.

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Re:As /. has clearly shown by johnalex · 2003-08-12 02:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

This reminds me of a quote attributed to Winston Churchill:

"If a man isn't a liberal in his 20's, he has no soul.

If a man isn't a conservative in his 30's, he has no brain."

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