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IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama
antipeon alerts us to a presidential preference survey, done in late February and early March, indicating that Obama and McCain lead among IT workers with 29% each. Clinton follows with 13%, just ahead of Huckabee (11%) and Ron Paul (9%). The Computing Technology Industry Association commissioned the poll, and the article notes that this trade group claims the population of IT workers is four times as large as the Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks it is — the better to make a voting block whose views must be attended to.
OT, but I was gonna vote for Obama... until all that stuff about him being in cahoots with that pastor for 20 years came out. Looks like I'm gonna *shudder* vote for Hillary. :-(
McCain/Palin '08. Now THAT's hope and change!
Why doesn't slashdot post the religious breakdowns of IT workers while we are at it, kdawson?
I see fairly little value of this "story" on slashdot unless you want to get into the usual political flamewars. People of any profession or kind have different political views, the fact that it shows a divide into McCain and Obama is almost meaningless since one is the nominee, and the other is going to be.
Someone please stop kdawson from posting political stories please. He is a troll and a bad one at that.
1) Unemployment is historically low.
2) Self defense is not war mongering. Even if you think Iraq was no threat, they've gone from 50,000 killed per year under Saddam to 50,000 killed in the time since. It may be the lesser of two evils, but this evil is a LOT less. Don't forget that all the Democrats WANTED the war in Iraq. They just don't want to stick around and WIN it.
3) Wanting free trade with other nations is not a sign of xenophobia or racism nor is appointing the first two black Sec's of State.
4) 3 Documented cases of waterboarding in the GWT is not a pattern of Communist style torture. Overall, enemy combatants have been given better treatment than domestic felons.
5) People have more stuff than they ever have. The NY Times, which is NOT GOP friendly, ran an op-ed explaining that consumption by the top fifth of the population by income is only twice that of the bottom fifth. How many other countries can come close to that?? Yes, there's a big mortgage problem out there, but before lending homes to poor people was "predatory lending" the Dems were pushing the banks to give those loans.
6) We've even cut greenhouse gas emissions for hippies who still believe in that crap.
Yes, the GOP should cut government spending and get rid of dumb-ass shit like Social Security and Medicare but they don't have the votes to make it happen. Uncle Sam collects about $17,000 per worker, most of which goes to social programs that no one would ever need if their taxes were less. It won't stop no matter who is in power until the public realizes the true cost.
So what you're saying is that IT people (like you, that is) like McCain because he'll import more foreigners to compete with Americans for IT jobs? IT people (like you) want to leave the economy with Bush's policies intact, so no taxes to pay for a continuing explosion in spending (like a
America is a land of foreigners. Cut spending by capping Medicaid.
$TRILLION+ for Iraq), and continuing to leave no oversight of the corporations who have robbed that economy, like the banks, Halliburton, KBR, Enron and whichever new ones are based in Arizona instead of over in Texas?
How are banks robbing the economy? They lent money to people. People didn't pay it back. And, even if we assume that your wildest accusations regarding Halliburton are true, that pales in significance compared to the economic disasters wrought by trial lawyers and unions to the United States. In fact, teachers unions have ruined the educational system in this country so much that children educated at home actually score -better- on standardized tests.
IT people like you think that Progressivism is socialism, but that the Bush handouts McCain will continue (if there's anything left) are somehow not? That haven't noticed how different the US is from real socialisms like Canada, UK, France, Germany and so many others whose economies are making ours look like some failing MBA's final project?
In point of fact, the USA economy continues to grow, has a lower unemployment rate than most other countries, and has the most opportunity of any nation. Indeed, the current European criticism of the United States is that that long overvalued dollar, now reaching a more correct valuation, is making life difficult for Germany and France to export their way out of its ridiculous social expenditures. God forbid, if the dollar hits $2/EU, then Europeans might actually have to work for a change.
Are there really that many IT people like you who haven't noticed that McCain and Bush's "Conservatism" has failed more miserably than any kind of government since the Soviet system it most closely resembes?
The soviet system was characterized by central planning, which is what your so-called progressivism is. But, it doesn't even have to be that complicated. Socialism is really simple. You basically have a gang of demagogues or a class of thieves to go and pretend that they are helping out the loser class by stealing from the capable classes for themselves. Socialism is like this. One guy, A, worked a little and built himself a boat, and another guy, B, drank beer and didn't. The guy, C, comes along, screams bloody murder about inequality, and thus, given goads the otherwise lazy B to help him take the boat. So, guy C takes the boat, gives guy B a ride for about 10 minutes, but then kicks guy B out of the boat and keeps it for himself.
This is my sig.
If one of his campaign promises was to eat Bush, Cheney, et al. first, then I would honestly consider voting for him!
He almost started a shooting war with Russia over f***king airport in Kosovo.
two different victim groups
Black and Female are victim groups?
You are a myopic ignorant fuck, now aren't you...
"Nobody was talking about McCain a month ago."
That's wrong.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:John_McCain
You're trying to pretend no one was talking about McCain in the middle of the Republican primaries. You sound ridiculous.
"I find it astonishing that this McCain guy is even being talked about."
I find it astonishing that someone is so biased and ignorant that they think people discussing THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is astonishing.
"With the totally ignored cries that the call girl agency which did Spitzer in was long known by U.S. Intelligence to be a Mossad front, and that he was fed to the lions to get a wall-street watchdog like Spitzer out of the way before the shenanigans with the Fed and JP Morgan and Bear Stearns which broke a week later, shows again that if you are clean, you aren't allowed to come to power of any sort."
I doubt they'd have been able to "feed him to the lions" if he wasn't paying for whores.
"That's just sick."
What's really sick is that even in the face of your overwhelming bias and ignorance, you get the same vote I do. THAT is sick.