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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. Net Neutrality by MSBob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    McCain is against net neutrality (and I sense he doesn't understand the issue either) while Obama is for protecting net neutrality and - judging by the way his campaign is ran - is a lot more tech savvy than the other remaining candidates.

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  2. Re:Hillary, anyone? by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hell yes Bush did. He looked GREAT on paper:

    • Graduate of Philips Academy
    • Degree from Yale
    • Air Force National Guard pilot during Vietnam War (he bragged about this often neglecting to say he never served in theater)
    • MBA from Harvard
    • Son of U.S. President (that alone opens any door in this country for you)
    • Two-term governor of one of the largest states in the Union
    • CEO of several corporations
    • GM of Houston Texans (I think)

    My point is that resume bullets look good when you don't have to give the details; i.e. rejected by law school and daddy got him into the Guard to duck combat service, CEO of several failed companies, ripped off tax payers of Houston on the stadium deal then turned around and sold team to reap profit from stadium tax, only got into Yale because of legacy, etc.

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  3. Re:Pardon me saying so... by ciggieposeur · · Score: 5, Interesting

    when most polls show Ron Paul at under 5%, why do 10% of IT people support him?

    Because many IT folks were fed libertarian talking points throughout their adolescence in the form of American science fiction. American sci-fi is disproportionately libertarian, with even an annual award (the Prometheus Award) given out by the Libertarian Futurist Society. Many famous names in sci-fi including Poul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, Neil Stephenson, David Brin, Larry Niven, and Vernor Vinge are/were associated with establishment libertarianism, and even Heinlein (who was supposedly co-opted by the libertarians ("TAANSTFL")) did little to publicly correct the impression that he favored anarcho-libertarian ideology.

    Now twenty years later many IT folks have libertarianism sunk in very deep indeed.