“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.”
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@Hard Nard
But was the computer on???
@ sudershan
What’s a “muslem”?
Can MacDailyNews please stay away from politics. I get enough of this crap on the TV already. Sheesh.
I’m not an American, but all I can say – I really hope that the next U.S. president is NO OTHER than Barack Obama.
sudershan we need a muslem president to put the country on the right path.
Maybe. Too bad for you that only three christians are running this time.
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@cubert
but where is the possessive for apple? their employess are also meant, aren’t they?
and as for berlin, we’re going low and slow here in germany
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Where do they get these statistics???
I work at one of those Co.s and no one asked me who I gave $$$ to.
Boo hoo!
“What’s a ‘muslem’?”
It’s a breakfast dish made of uncooked rolled oats and fruit that you must eat five times a day.
@ ping
“Too bad for you that only three christians are running this time.”
Too bad for all us us. 🙁
‘of’ us.
Hey, speaking of, the Pope is coming today, trying to find someone that still likes him. It’s getting hard to get little boys to join the church these days.
@ Ampar
And you have to bend over and put your face right in the bowl.
@Ampar…you are using the singluar. Muselix is plural, like one ass two astericks (also know as two Gauls)
I always vote for the Pinko-Gay candidates.
I’ll bet they know a few asstricks.
I second what Lurker said.
ChrissyOne, I bet you know quite a few ass tricks too!
Counting down to the demands from the likes of David Horowitz and Brent Bozell that Apple and Google hire more conservatives!
You can’t teach an old ass new tricks, but you can
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@ Buster
Why you gotta be hatin’ on Buster, dude? Do Canadians frighten you that much?
That was directed at FAKE Buster, BTW.
How many people use the name?
@ Buster:
really “cool” names brings on many clones
I’m one of those bitter people of which Obama speaks, I like guns and I hate illegal immigrants. In particular, I dislike Muslim politicians like Obama and his racist preacher/advisor that despise everything Whitey has accomplished.
Not surprising that Steve Jobs is a democrat, left-winger. After all, he is from Syria, and is probably a closet Muslim like Obama.
@Bitter Man
You’re joking, right?
No, he’s just stupid.