“Employees at two of the technology industry’s younger giants, Google and Yahoo, overwhelmingly support a presidential candidate who has positioned himself as the leader of a new political wave,” Todd Bishop reports for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Elder statesmen Apple and Microsoft? Not as much.”
“Employees of all four companies have contributed more to Sen. Barack Obama than to any other candidate,” Bishop reports.
“That’s one pattern evident in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer analysis of Federal Elections Commission data. The analysis looked at personal contributions by workers and executives at 15 major technology companies,” Bishop reports.
“Among other things, the numbers indicate strong Democratic leanings among technology workers. More than 73 percent of the money contributed by workers at the 15 companies has gone to Democratic candidates. That’s well above the roughly 60 percent going to Democrats from the general population,” Bishop reports.
“One anomaly is the tech industry’s support for Republican Ron Paul. Among employees of the 15 companies in the sample, he ranked third in donations, ahead of Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee,” Bishop reports.
“A potential clash of corporate cultures is a major question in Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid to acquire Sunnyvale’s Yahoo. And based on the election data, at least, there’s a notable difference between employees at the two companies,” Bishop reports. “Yahoo employees made personal contributions to Obama totaling more than $66,500 through Feb. 29 – three times as much as they gave to the Clinton campaign… Microsoft employees have given about $193,000 to Obama’s campaign, and about $178,000 to Clinton’s campaign.”
Bishop reports, “Apple is sort of in the middle. The Cupertino company’s employees have given $40,700 to Obama and $28,700 to Clinton.”
More in the full article here.
Cha-Chiinngggg
Hit generator!
Tech types must be smarter, forward looking and not too mired in the past.
The 60’s are OVER, Hillary.
The 40’s and 50’s are REALLY OVER McCain!
great news!
we need a muslem president to put the country on the right path.
also, barack needs to apply the economic theory of juche.
allahu akbar (god is great)
It’s pretty obvious which computer company Obama’s web designer prefers.
What an Abomination! (Obamanation?)
Let the out of place political discussion commence.
Oh, boy. This thread is going south real quick!
Get your non-political posts in while you can.
Baba-booie, baba-booie, baba-booie!
There. I got mine in.
Didn’t Billy Boy do a sleepover at Stevie’s house
back when they visited Chelsea at Stanford awhile back??
Everybody bring your sleeping bags, but watch out for Billy in the middle of the night.
shouldn’t it at least be: “Apple and other tech firms employees’…” though it still sounds awkward.
all you native speakers, am i wrong?
or better: “Apple’s and other tech firms’ employees’…”
B.Clinton: “Wanna swap wives, Steve?”
S.Jobs: “I don’t do that kind of thing, Bill.”
B.Clinton: “….Got anything you wanna swap?”
Trouble is that most of the tech companies are Left Coasters anyway. And it’s not surprising they like Ron Paul, since he at least has logic behind his positions and looks like he might actually do what he says, instead of saying what ever he thinks would get him elected, then doing what ever he damn well pleases after he’s in office (the current regimes publicly stated approach).
The question is whether the conservative south will vote actual Christian values or the phony “values issues” that has gotten them all sweaty in the past. (i.e. Nobody favors abortion. The debate is over who gets to make the choice, the individual or the religious right, using the government as their enforcer. The conservatives just want the government to make a woman’s decision for her. How odd is that. They want small government, except when it forces people to follow their beliefs )
ralph from berlin,
Proper English would be, “Apple and other tech firms’ employees.”
Possessive for the firms, although they don’t really own the employees. Well, except maybe Apple.
Oh, while we are at it, it should also be “Berlin”.
And in the competition for the first ignorant, illiterate comment to be appended to this article, we have a winner…
SUDESHAN!
Watch below for more.
Wow, what a surprise. I figured they still be pullin’ for Kucinich…
Just goes to show that some tech firm employees are idiots! Keep the politics off this board please! Obama Bin Ladin’s face is making me nauseas!
lurker: The question is whether the conservative south will vote actual Christian values or the phony “values issues” that has gotten them all sweaty in the past.
… how about they vote neither and instead rely on modes of justification which they share with their fellow citizens.
Is it unreasonable to think that religion is a private matter (about your soul) and law is a public matter (about what people should be free to do), and that the former should not be used to decide questions about the latter?
Oh good grief.
I’m predicting this will go to 3 pages of blinkered, ignorant commentary.
Blah blah Clinton blah blah taxes blah blah moon landing was a hoax blah blah republican oil blah blah paper shredding queen blah blah blah blah on and on and on.
Socialism here we come!!
Bakla Obama, Hitlerey Clinton.
Some choice!
Mac Addict had pictures of Bush using a 20″ G4 iMac in the Oval Office, so any attempt to say one party or the other is better because of what computer they use is moot.
It’s already too late for the USA. We’ve been invaded and nobody cares. I give up. I’m glad I’m on my way out, rather than on my way in.
If you want to get rich—be a politician. Ask Slick Willy and the rest of them, repubs and dems alike.
Apple, other tech firm employees’ contributions favor Democrats over Republicans, Obama over Clinton
I would have written it as:
The political contributions made by employees of Apple and other tech firms favor Democrats over Republicans, Obama over Clinton.
In other news, employees from tech industry companies are pretty much split in the “tastes great” – “less filling” debate.
If we can survive the Republicans, we can survive the Democrats.
ralph from berlin,
Proper American would be, “Apple and dem udder guys.”