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IT Industry Presidential Poll: 'Not Sure' Beats Both Obama and Romney

CIStud writes "A new poll conducted of IT industry executives and integrators shows a divided and unsure industry regarding which presidential candidate is better for Information Technology to prosper. The poll, conducted by JZ Analytics on behalf of CompTIA, shows 'Not Sure' winning in four out of five areas. President Obama holds and edge over Mitt Romney in every category, including which person is best for the IT industry in terms of tax policy (remarkably), access to capital, tech exports, education and privacy."

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  1. The toilet water guy?!? by crazyjj · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard he talked all faggy, and his shit was totally fucked up.

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    1. Re:The toilet water guy?!? by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"

      Change we can believe in.

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    2. Re:The toilet water guy?!? by BMOC · · Score: 4, Funny

      Came for this, leaving satisfied.

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  2. Lack of Options by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I posit that the only reason 'Not Sure' was the number one response is likely because 'None of the Above' wasn't an option.

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  3. NEITHER by detritus. · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't just point out Not Sure, the third option was was Not Sure/Neither.

  4. Re:False choice by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obama is a convinced Marxist basically, he is completely convinced that the free market capitalism is the root of all evil

    I'm not sure if Obama has taken a position on the labor alienation, commodity fetishism or historical materialism, let alone the Hegelian dialectic as it applies to capital. He might have said something once about the labor theory of value being wrong, or about the relative moral value of M-C-M' transactions in a market, but I may be mistaken.

    This word, "marxism," I do not think it means what you think it means.

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  5. Re:False choice by David+Greene · · Score: 5, Informative

    I fundamentally disagree with your analysis. It displays a lack of understanding of political power and Obama is neither a Marxist or a Socialist. But that's not what I want to address today. What we need to address is this:

    Obama and Romney differ very little when it comes to the actual issues

    You're kidding, right?

    One pushed through a big health care reform which will cover millions of uninsured people while the other is moving as far away from his (mostly identical) program as possible.

    One believes that progressive taxation is essential to prosperity. The other has done everything he can to make the tax system regressive.

    One believes we need to regulate the financial sector to ensure stability. The other has pledged to tear down what little regulation we have.

    One has invested in renewable energy and the other says he will fund "traditional" energy sources and dismantle decades of environmental law.

    One may agree or disagree with the candidates on these points but one cannot honestly say there is no difference between them.

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  6. Re:We've got this guy Not Sure by neminem · · Score: 4, Funny
  7. Re:What's the difference? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are less then a dozen documented cases of someone voting using a false identity over the last four election cycles. On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of voters who do not have photo id due to economic conditions (cant afford a car, dont have a drivers license). The people without ids are statistically Democrat voters.

    As for redistricting, I'm talking about changing the rules so that Democrat districts have less time to vote then Republican ones. Granted that got over turned by a Federal judge, but that they tried it is sickening.

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  8. Re:What's the difference? by Ziggitz · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are full of shit. What you are referencing is called gerrymandering and it is not the same. Gerrymandering is redistricting such that you shove all of the other party's voting block into one area as much as possible to make their popular vote as least effective as possible, allowing you to get more of your own guys into the house of representatives. It has nothing to do with the straight up disenfranchising of voters i.e. putting laws in place to purposefully get less people to vote, such as requiring id, restricting means by which to register and purging valid voters from the registry.

    We have had a wave of voter ID laws in swing states by Republicans that clearly disproportionately voting blocks that tend to vote Democrat. We had Republicans attempting to allow early voting for Republican counties in Ohio but not for urban counties that vote overwhelmingly Democrat. This is isn't typical gerrymandering and there is no whitewashing it. All of the Voter ID laws are to prevent a crime that is less frequent than the rate that people get struck by lightning in those same states. Republicans are doing it, Democrats aren't. If they were Fox News would be all over that shit.

    As for your third line are you one of the members of the Republican party that thinks the Universe was created in January of 2008? Because you are completely fucking lost to reality and have the attention span of a goldfish if you think Republicans give two shits about the national debt for any reason other than a Democrat is in the White House.

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  9. Re:False choice by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    do you have an actual argument

    Yes, Obama is financially conservative and socially liberal and rarely strays far from the center. The reason you think he's a socialist is because you are way out on the right wing, the left wing is over your horizon and it's difficult for you to even see the center.

    I am not an American, I was born in the former USSR. Unfortunately for me I actually had to read Marx and Lenin too

    We've crossed paths before, I believe you are sincere and passionate but it comes across as ignorance and arrogance, unfortunately you routinely believe the most outlandish propaganda and then repeat it as truth. You grew up in a land and time where intense state propaganda was the norm and motivated the behavior of the adults around you. Pravda and Fox are two faces of the same evil, I hope that one day you can get past resenting the adults from your childhood and realize that you've been fighting dragons for so long that you have become one.

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