“With the campaign fundraising season in high swing, Republicans are making a play for corporate support from an industry that is regarded as a Democratic stronghold: information technology,” Josephine Hearn reports for The Hill. “Information technology has had a natural bent toward Democrats, with its roots in Silicon Valley, not far from the liberal bastion of San Francisco. During the 2000 election cycle, new-economy entrepreneurs gave handily to Democrats.”
“This year, however, Republicans are hoping to bring the IT industry in line with other, solidly Republican business interests,” Hearn reports. “Democrats, however, are not willing to concede the high-tech sector. They have been aggressively cultivating IT leaders as well, building on a base of ‘Atari Democrats’ from the 1980s and pro-business New Democrats from the 1990s. Sen. John Kerry raised $2 million at a San Jose fundraiser at the end of June. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs is an adviser to Kerry and could well hold a Cabinet post in a Kerry administration.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As if Steve doesn’t have enough responsibilities to juggle with Apple and Pixar, but wouldn’t that put a fine ding in the Beltway’s universe?
J.C., that’s all we’d need! Another reason to vote for Bush/Cheney, as if I needed another!
Macs free for every cabinet member
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This would be GREAT for the Apple vs. Real issue.
Your honor, I’d like to direct you to a link that may find more acceptable: http://www.winsupersite.com
You could never get Steve Jobs to live anywhere near the Beltway and it’s corrosive insider culture.
Steve Jobs for Attorney General!!! Wouldn’t that make for some fun with a new antitrust action against the Redmond behemoth…
Hmm…maybe for some sort of technology czar?
Exactly why I’m not voting for Kerry. The Dems just keep on sliding to the left….
YES!!! Steve Jobs is perfect for the United States!
If you Americans want the Europeans to ever respect you again, you will elect people who will befriend Europe and you will vote Bush out of office! We support anyone but that hatemongering animal!
The best day will be when you dumb Americans change the law so that a European can be President and show you how to run a country! And I don’t mean Arnold because he’s a Republican!
4 years with Bush is bad enough, you need a change or you will be forever hated by your cousins from Europe.
America can’t afford not having the Europeans respect for another 4 years!
I did not write that 1:39 post.
Could you use your own nick?
Here should be some kind of registration.
Kerry&Edwards;&Jobs; sounds good though.
Finland …
As always, you are wrong.
President Jobs.
All this is totally irrelevant to anyone outside the USA.
It makes no difference who gets elected – ALL POLITICIANS ARE LIARS ANYWAY!
yeah, but some lie much better than others.
I’d hate to see S.J. go to Washington. Steve shouldn’t dirty himself with common politics. He’s better than that.
Finland get a life. You probably just regretted writing that crap so you followed up with a reply after it was too late. I remember a few months ago when you wrote all those other ridiculous posts about Steve Jobs and Apple being a European company or something along the lines of that crap. Grow up! I’m not a fan of Bush either but you’re just plain annoying!
In regard to the thread, I also agree that Jobs should stay cleer of politics. He’s already running Apple and Pixar, and who knows if the Disney rumors are true! (even though it’s highly unlikely)
In all seriousness, I doubt Jobs would be stupid enough to step into the arena of politics.
Yes, to the guy from Finland, why not a Kerry/J�teenm�ki ticket. A flip-flopper and international liar …. what a ticket! Jobs can run the ministry of truth, ala 1984, given that his pronounced delivery dates are wrong every time.
Kerry/J��tteenm�ki is not a good idea.
Bush/Cheney/J��tteenm�ki is more like it.
Bliar/J��tteenm�ki would also make difference
The US elections are absolutely of interest in the wider world. This year they’ll be followed probably as closely as our own elections in the UK.
This is mainly because the rest of the world wants Bush out.
But to the fake one guy from Finland, I don’t really think the yanks should give a monkeys about what their European cousins think. They should vote the way they think is right for their own reasons.
If we weren’t interested, this: http://home.comcast.net/~fjelstad/thisland.swf would not have featured on a political discussions programme on UK network TV.
Mac McMax, it was me who wrote about the difference between Apple and Microsoft’s business culture and how they might be compared to the difference between Europe and (Bush’s) America. I didn’t say claim either company was European – I was simply wondering if America’s raw greed, insular self protectionism and its denial of the value of any culture beyond its own boundaries, had parallels with Microsoft.
Glad to see you remembered it though.
Maybe Steve should get the Employment portfolio – I’m sure he would enjoy campaigning on the “Jobs for All!” ticket.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH …
you STILL haven’t figured out that you’re the only other person posting to these comments?
I compose the vast majority of the MacDailyNews comments under approximately 337 false internet aliases. I like to pretend that I am a schizophrenic
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Didn’t you ever realize that all these comments can’t possibly come from different people? All of them are mine. Except for what you’ve submitted, of course, which doesn’t amount to much.
Yep….12 minutes watch it all.
http://media1.stream2you.com/rnc/072304v2.wmv
Pass it on.
How anyone could have been fooled by that fake “One Guy from Finland” post is beyond me. The Real One Guy never uses contractions, yet that post has “he’s” and “can’t”.
Steve Jobs needs to stay in California. Washington pollutes people.
Dave H
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Bingo
whoo needs a speeling chicker? not moo anycow!
LOL
http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/
aaah but he won’t be in Washington very often he will be kept very busy discovering his Irish/Scotish roots. When young Mr Ive was over in the Auld country recently to collect another gong few people realised that he spent 2 days in the little known town of imackoldy just a few miles down the airport expressway from Kirkipod Abbey the traditional family home of the Macintosh clan. What he was doing there is anyone’s guess of course but local gossip among the canny crofters has it that he were busy researching the long lost hunting tartan of the infamous laird ‘MacJob the gate slayer’ the nemisis of the terrible and pagan northern Redmond invaders, the details of which are barely hinted upon except in mythical tales of the Great 5th century poer book.