“IT workers are evenly split between Barack Obama and John McCain as their choice for the next president of the United States, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association and Rasmussen Reports,” Roy Mark reports for eWeek.
“The survey of IT workers, taken in early March, shows Obama and McCain in a dead heat, with each receiving 39 percent of the vote, and Hillary Clinton trailing at 13 percent,” Mark reports.
“The survey also shows that while 35 percent of IT workers identify themselves as Republicans and another 26 percent call themselves Democrats, 40 percent chose no party affiliation. An overwhelming majority—75 percent—put themselves in the conservative-moderate political spectrum,” Mark reports.
“According to CompTIA, there are more than 12 million IT workers in the United States—more than miners, farmers and construction workers combined. The CompTIA numbers reveal that the IT work force is mostly white (74 percent), male (77 percent) and more than 80 percent make between $60,000 and $100,000 or more,” Mark reports.
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And let the Vitriol Begin!!!!!!!
MDN = traffic-generating geniuses.
True dat yo. Let me click on some ads to pay for this fun.
This is just why I visit this site…to get politics mixed in with my Apple news…
ugh
Easily will be 5 pages of posts.
It’s going to be Obama. McCain doesn’t have a chance in hell. Even my father, a small town police officer, law-and-order conservative party-pooper type is going to vote Obama. My dad would never vote for a Democrat, or a black man, but he enjoys how Obama can string more than 10 words together without staring at a teleprompter.
He has a point.
I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
Ho hum! Yawn!
MW: Bring, as in bring it on. I don’t have to; it will bring itself on.
Here’s the truth: America will not elect a black man or a woman as president. Maybe in a decade or so, but not now. Yes, we here are all enlightened people and would never vote based on race or gender, but large swaths of the U.S. are not enlightened and will vote based on race and gender.
Here’s the deal, get used to it:
President John McCain
Much worse things have happened. I actually kind of like the guy.
“The CompTIA numbers reveal that the IT work force is mostly white (74 percent), male (77 percent) and more than 80 percent make between $60,000 and $100,000 or more,”
And they’re mostly Republicans… Who’d-a thunk it?!
@ Reality
I’m cooking your crow now. Should be yummy by November.
Tell yer dad Hitler was a great speaker. Talked on and on. They didn’t have teleprompters in those days.
Tell yer dad, Obama’s friend, confidant, and religious mentor, who talks up hating white folks, he’s a good speaker also.
Tell yer dad, it’s good to know that such relevant criteria is being used to sway his vote to liberals.
@ ChrissyOne:
“he enjoys how Obama can string more than 10 words together without staring at a teleprompter.”
Too bad that’s all Obama can do. All talk, no substance behind it. He would be an absolute disaster.
The survey also showed that 75% of IT workers are shitting their pants over the possibility of their company switching to the Macintosh platform.
So, suck on that MAC dorks!
RON PAUL 2008!
stupid AS*ES!
@ Obama haters
Hey, it’s not like I’m a big fan, I’m just telling you the way it is. McCain can only run as Another Republican™, and the American people aren’t so impressed with their leadership at the moment. I actually quite like McCain as a person. He certainly displays more honor and integrity that the average Nixon-knock-off crook that GW employs.
Suck on that, GOP dorks.
This is Macdailynews, why do we care about who IT people are going to vote for. It is bad enough already that there is an Obama ad flashing away on almost every page. I think MDN should stick with technology news and not politics, we get enough of that on EVERY news channel.
“The survey also shows that while 35 percent of IT workers identify themselves as Republicans and another 26 percent call themselves Democrats, 40 percent chose no party affiliation. An overwhelming majority—75 percent—put themselves in the conservative-moderate political spectrum,” Mark reports.
Observation: This is a pretty accurate reflection of US demographics as a whole. Some studies/surveys indicate greater percentages with the two main parties with those increases coming equally at the expense of the Independent/no affiliation tally, but still very similar. And the 75% figure for Conservative-Moderate is in the right ball park too.
Of course, if one is to restrict the region or specifics of the study to certain regions of the country or cities versus suburbs versus rural the tally’s change, but…
I have no idea where the election will end up. [I’m long past tired of hearing about it to be honest]. None of the candidates really do much for me. I’ll be glad when it’s over though.
— Hano
@ @ChrissyOne
Yeah, I’ll tell my dad all about what an anonymous computer geek said about Hitler on the internet. That’ll go over big.
I don’t mind voting for a black man, just not this one.
I don’t mind voting for a woman, just not this one.
I’m not too happy with McCain, but he’s a Vietnam vet —like me.
@Jay-Z,
“He would be an absolute disaster.”
Uh, you mean like the past 8 years. I’d rather see Hitler in there than have 1 more day of Dumbya. It’ll take our country 50-100 years to recover from his administration. I don’t envy the next president that has to deal with the mess.
Cubert’s First And Only Political Post:
In the wake of Obama speaking here in Philly on Tuesday, it seems to me that the bigger question is whether the 6000 people in his congregation believed the stuff the pastor was saying. There are two possibilities: They either believed it, or they didn’t care enough to leave the church in protest. Either way it bodes poorly for race relations in the U.S. and is very telling. Obama said nothing in his speech except that we should talk about race – no mention of any plans. Blacks in the U.S. need to start trusting the rest of us more, stop believing these ridiculous ideas that the pastor was preaching, stop spewing vitriol about white people, and take more responsibility for the situation they are in.
Case in point: Who, in general, is more likely to have problems? A white guy walking through an all black neighborhood or a black guy walking through an all white neighborhood?
Exactly.
By the way, I am a Democrat and will vote for Obama if he is the nominee.
@ Reclaimer
“I’m not too happy with McCain, but he’s a Vietnam vet —like me.”
In that case, I’m voting for Forrest Gump.
No one hates Obama. I know I don’t. He isn’t deserving of hate, no more than any void of substance promise generator.
Now Hillary, she’s about as close as you can get to actually pulling something that vaguely resembles hate out of me. It’s either hate or a gastrointestinal visceral reaction to all things Clinton.
And John McCain, well, just a sheep in wolf’s clothing. Be like having Arnold Switch’n’egger in the White House.
Yeah. No matter what, we are so screwed. Maybe it will cost less under McCain. Maybe. Unfortunately republicans have been spending money like drunken liberals since Bush got into office, so ya never really know.
Bottom line, they’re all liars.
@ Cubert
“Case in point: Who, in general, is more likely to have problems? A white guy walking through an all black neighborhood or a black guy walking through an all white neighborhood?”
Well, of course, it depends on what kind of neighborhood we’re talking about. One thing I do know for sure is that no one in either of those neighborhoods will bother a Mexican guy as long as he’s holding a weed-eater.
It’ll be smooth sailing with McCain whose first official act will be to start a war with Iran. No problems there.
And of course our “liberal” media will make sure McCain has to disavow the statements of fundagelical wacko John Hagee (whose church numbers many thousands of adherents, unlike Wright’s few hundred) who calls the Catholic church the “great whore” and who wants to bring about the destruction of Israel in the “end times”, as well as his “spritual guide” Rod Parsley who rakes in millions and millions of tax-free dollars while calling for the extermination of Islam.