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IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama

Posted by kdawson on from the deadlock-condition dept.

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.

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  1. I don't know about you guys... by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but on the ballot or not, Steven Colbert gets my vote!

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    1. Re:I don't know about you guys... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

      A black, female lesbian

      If she was also a whale she would have the full set of PC attributes.

      Is there such a thing as a male lesbian BTW?

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    2. Re:I don't know about you guys... by jmorris42 · · Score: 2, Funny

      > Is there such a thing as a male lesbian BTW?

      Of course there is you insensitive clod. Watch what ya say lest they send you to the camps. Gender identity is whatever the hell you say it is and if anybody questions you yell that they are bigots, homophobes, etc. until they get scared and shut up. Jeeze, keep talkimg silly stuff like "is there such a thing as a ...." and people will think you are a Republican or worse.

      And there is always the example of "Mrs." Garrison on South Park. :)

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  2. Huckabee? Paul? by jfruhlinger · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, IT people are generally all kinds of smug how much smarter they are than everybody else, but 20 percent of them are apparently still backing candidates who dropped out of the race several weeks ago.

  3. Re:Hillary, anyone? by pohl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, he did run the tap at that awesome kegger...

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  4. Re:I think McCain would be the choice today by k_187 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go away, I won't have your infernal logic sullying this discussion any longer.

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  5. Re:Its her connection with Tata and outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No H1Bs!!! No NAFTA!!!! Deport all the Indians!!! Back to Dheli, out of our Delis!!!!

  6. Just be happy it didn't say THIS: by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    "IT Workers Strip For McCain, Obama"

    The mounds of ghostly pale cubicle flesh, bruised by flying chairs, monitor-burned faces with sunken eyes dead to anything that isn't composed of pixels, fingers continually spasming in the 3-fingered salute, skin courtesy of a diet of twinkies and cola ... ugh!

    1. Re:Just be happy it didn't say THIS: by SuluSulu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey! At least when the time comes we'll be able to use our uber computer skills to manipulate the vote properly, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Pardon me saying so... by Etrias · · Score: 4, Funny

    the idea of a "voting block" made up by geeks, is uterly inane.

    Why? Hey, someone has to rig those voting machines.
  8. Cthulhu '08! by rlp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why settle for the lesser evil.

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  9. NAFTA by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, as a Canadian I sincerely dislike NAFTA too, eh. All these American IT workers steal our jobs and we are forced to sell our oil for cheap to the USA, eh. We should be kick all these Yanks out, eh and we should charge them yankees CAD110 for oil, which is more like USD220 a barrel, eh...

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  10. Re:Hillary, anyone? by aplusjimages · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spending eternity in heaven with those type of people will surely make it feel like hell.

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