“Since the presidential election kicked off in 2011, the president’s official campaign arm, Obama for America, has spent $353,000 on Apple products according to official spending reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. That’s enough to buy 1,780 new iPhones or 176 new MacBook Air laptops,” Joseph Walker reports for Dow Jones Newswires. “The Romney campaign has been far more conservative in its Apple Store shopping binges, spending 72% less than Obama’s staff has over the same period, about $99,000.”
Walker reports, “Smartphones have become all the rage since the 2008 election, but, so far, neither campaign has invested much in mobile advertising, says Paran Johar, chief marketing officer of Jumptap, a Cambridge, Mass.-based mobile ad selling network that placed mobile ads for the Romney campaign during the primaries.”
MacDailyNews Note: In early June, an Apple spokesman said that Romney became the first political candidate to use the company’s iAd service. Read more: Apple: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney becomes first politician to use iAd service – June 10, 2012
Walker reports, “Political affiliation plays a part in who is using which kind of phone. Google’s Android smartphone operating system has more users than the iPhone in the U.S., but people who live in Democratic-leaning states are far more likely to utilize iPhone apps than voters in Republican states, according to Localytics, a mobile analytics start-up.”
MacDailyNews Note: Localytics found that 70% of the top ten most active iPhone states were Democrat-leaning states. These tended to be coastal and more densely populated, or more urban. Conversely, states with the lowest iPhone usage are found in the less densely populated states in the middle of the country, and 70% of these least active iPhone states were Republican-leaning states.
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“Overall, the tech community seems to be firmly in favor of re-electing Obama when it comes to opening up their wallets, according to contributor filings. Obama has raised $950,000 from the Big Five tech giants, compared to Romney’s $123,040,” Walker reports. “Apple employees seem to favor President Obama by a margin of 15 to 1. Campaign contributions from donors identifying themselves as Apple employees total $121,305, compared to the $8,175 donated to Romney.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John” for the heads up.]
Obama is the worst president since the 1930s! Apple owes its existence to capitalism and free markets, something liberals despise! Apple fans should thank gawd Obama will be a one-term president, just like Steve Jobs said! Why an Apple employee would support this awful destroyer of everything good in America is mind-boggling! Would u hire a plumber to operate on your child, cuz u elected a community organizer to run the largest, most complicated company on earth–America! Zero business or executive experience! Nada! Zilch! Zippo!
Wonder if MDN will censor this too?
Liberals do not “despise” capitalism and free markets. That is a fallacious assertion promulgated by conservatives in an attempt to paint liberals as unAmerican. In other words, meaningless propaganda that smells all too strongly of the McCarthy era, or of the more modern Bush “you are either with me or against me” mentality that attempted to classify anyone who questioned the war in Iraq, or torture, or the “Patriot Act” as unpatriotic. When people or groups start throwing around terms like “unAmerican,” it is time to become extremely suspicious of their motives because they are playing on emotion rather than fact.
What do I despise? Well, to start with, I despise simplistic posts like yours that pretend to understand what millions of other people believe. First you label, then you classify. but you actually don’t have a clue. You just want to think that you do so that you can feel more secure in your little knothole.
I personally believe that capitalism is the best overall economic approach in keeping with the strengths and weaknesses of human nature. However, some rules and regulations are necessary to try to keep the worst excesses of capitalism in check. There are plenty of historical examples…educate yourself.
Your arguments are consistently weak. What credentials did Reagan or Bush bring to the table when they took office? Bush was governor of Texas for a while, but that position is a joke. Even the colossal idiot Rick Perry has been able to stay in that office for three terms. Bush was a business failure until he made his money via a sweetheart deal with a friend of the family for a piece of the Texas Rangers.
There is no substance to the man. As a President, Bush was far too concerned with “being right,” even when he wasn’t. He equated certainty (stay the course) with being right. As a result, he purged nearly everyone with a dissenting opinion from his administration. What do you get with a bunch of “yes” people backing the President? Failure. Example? I called “No Child Left Behind” by its proper name – Every Child Left Behind – when he kicked it off. It was clearly destined to be a federally mandated failure from the start. Not surprisingly, Republicans don’t want to talk about it anymore. The prescription drug card? Another big, costly Republican failure. It is a confusing mess that favors big business insurers over the people it was purported to help. So much for conservative ideals of non-socialist smaller government. lol
In contrast, Bush’s father (as I have often stated in this forum) is a gentleman and a statesman. I would vote for him today if he ran for President. But he is far too moderate for the current Republican party. He would have to run as a Democrat. Oh, the irony!
you are a stupid person.
Stupid in contrast to whom…..you, perhaps? Indeed, you are undoubtedly a minimalist genius who uses “stupid” and “zzz” to such devastating effect.
Your responses mask a great intellect, perhaps that of a Charlie Gordon, or even Algernon.
This has been a blast, botvinnik. But this thread is old. Let’s move on to a newer article on MDN and continue this battle of wits in which I am so terribly outmatched.
zzzz.