“If dollars translate into votes then tech’s top companies are squarely behind Barack Obama, by a better than 5 to 1 margin if you believe the Center for Responsive Politics and its latest stats on the issue,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
“The group put together donation records for some of the top companies in Silicon Valley and the numbers are striking. Overall, Obama outraised John McCain $1,434,719 to $267,041. Google was Obama’s single biggest corporate donor, racking up $485,961 in donations, compared to only $20,600 for John McCain,” Goldman reports.
“As for McCain’s biggest corporate donor? That’d be Cisco Systems, where CEO John Chambers is a vocal supporter of McCain as a co-chairman of his campaign. Employees there forked over $80,676 to McCain. But those donations still didn’t measure up to the $149,078 Cisco employees also sent Obama’s way,” Goldman reports.
“Other notables? Apple Inc. workers donated $98,023 for Obama and $16,950 for McCain; Hewlett-Packard employees raised $148,057 for Obama, and $15,750 for McCain,” Goldman reports.
“Important to note: The Center for Responsive Politics says some contributors didn’t identify their employer so all of this might not represent every donation. Also important: McCain’s fundraising was limited because he accepted public-financing while Obama did not, so that might skew the numbers in Obama’s favor as well,” Goldman reports.
More in the full article here.
@Macromancer…
Nope, I haven’t forgotten the disappointment of George W. Bush. If anything, Bush made me realize it really doesn’t matter who you vote for. These criminals will expand government to suit themselves no matter what.
I haven’t seen an actual fiscal conservative in the White House since John Kennedy and Reagan.
9/11 was a Republican Junta.
Kick the bums out and see if Obama can salvage what remains of the Republic, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We’ll ALL be paying for the Bush-neo-Con mess for decades.
I’d Obama a lot easier to support if he’d just change two of his views:
1. Get off the typical, Democrat gun-control agenda. The Constitution is pretty clear. If you don’t like it, move to have a new amendment added. Otherwise, just shut up about the “what works in Chicago might not work in Cheyenne” crap. It seems pretty obvious to me that Chicago’s gun control *ISN’T* working. Why can’t people figure out that criminals, BY DEFINITION, do not obey the law??
2. “Spreading the wealth around” scares me witless. Wealth isn’t the issue- opportunity is. Giving tax breaks or credits to low income (or even middle class) folks isn’t going to fix anything. The fundamental problem is that some folks don’t have the opportunity to grow. Make the necessary changes so that the opportunity is there- but f*ck ’em if they decide to waste it. I’m sick and tired of people whining about this or that. You know, if you really want to make things better, it takes work. You have to put some effort into it, not just accept a government handout. Everyone should have the chance to succeed, but if you don’t take it, tough nuggies for you.
@GT
Don’t dare talk about moral character and values when Obama and Nancy Pelosi think it is “OK” and not crossing the line for people in SF to have special parades where gay men walk the streets waving their wankers.
Meanwhile, I have to try to explain to my son why Bob is kissing Bill because they demand their public rights and are supported by Obama and Pelosi.
God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. If Obama wins, the door to Sodom and Gomorrah is kicked open.
@ StarkReality You are talking out of the wrong orifice.
Well actually, you’re just making things up based on nothing at all.
to vote for Ron Paul!
Booyah!
I got your “Green Party” Right here!
ShaPow!
@R2
And I wonder how many of these scientists believe in the other great delusion of our time, Global Warming. That and ‘Change’ – as Phineas T Barnum once said, no one ever lost money by overestimating the stupidity of the American public.
I think HIllary is ahead right now. Cool.
Republican, Democrats. I don’t think it matters at this point. The problem is that both parities have been infiltrated by special intreats groups that make sure that whomever gets elected, will still do their bidding. We have more serious problems that can’t be address in this fashion. Greed controls the world and everything will go down the drain because it every man for his own.
People, don’t kid your selves. Their is no real political discourse here, their is only one party with two factions. But as long as we think we have a democracy everything will be O.K. Their is no choice, their is only the illusion of choice so brace your selves because our why of life is unsustainable. We are headed for some hard times. If prosperity is our only goal, then we have all lost.
@Macromancer: You do realize that Obama voted for the Patriot Act, don’t you? And you also realize that Obama’s plans are for Western-European style socialism, don’t you? But hey, if GDP growth at 1% (instead of 3-5%) and breaks in national security is what you want, then vote Obama.
@CD
Nice pivot and topical attack.
The world’s not pretty and often won’t conform to your demands. As a parent, you get the job of teaching your children how to survive and thrive in this world. If you aren’t up to the task, don’t ask government to do it for you.
Thanks for playing.
GT
I would challange any of you to show me where any one politician stood their ground for the duration of their adult lives. Every one of us has changed our outlook on things throughout our adult lives. We will continue to do so, the main reason is we all have kids (for the most part). No matter who is elected, the sun comes up tomorrow. Your vote is not going to change anything. Our country will remain the world power, our economy will recover and life will move on with retards defending their ever changing politics and the same retards either proclaiming their God is far superior to your God or you will all go to hell for this or that.
Life is about very little, other than everything is consistantly changing and will forever change consistantly.
I only hope that as each and everyone of you who are so staunch on your “stances” in life, will come to this same understanding as you are pissing on yourselves as you struggle to hold onto the life that is escaping you at your death. And may the most ignorant of you struggle for many months in an amount of pain that no person should have ever gotten to experience. May your own personal God ( Which ever one you shill for) present death to you in a most violent and horrific manner for not understanding life’s most important found rule…” Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” If God strikes me dead now, I will see you all in that place most of you call hell, you know the place where you say everyone that doesn’t believe as you do is going to be sent after judgement?.
Late
Oh, almost forgot, Raise your own damn kids. Or do us all a favor and get snipped.
And tell those little bastards to stay out of my yard. Maybe if I just make the dogs chain longer???? Hmmmmmm
All of you doomsayers out there, why are you continuing to spread this nonsense?
Taxes and the discussion surrounding them are all on Obama’s homepage. It is laid out completely and thoroughly. Additionally, the 250k limit is for INDIVIDUAL not corporate or business taxes.
I am so happy that most of the voters have been able to see beyond this. As for govt. programs, these are not going to be the bane of Obama’s existence. He will stimulate private enterprise, but with some scrutiny. The days of Laissez-faire are over. And who wouldn’t want some oversight? With the addition of stem-cell research being approved under either Obama or McCain, there will need to be some oversight.
So get over this stupidity already and let’s work as one. That is what America is about.
/rick.
“the worst blunder of his administration was to pave the way for this man and what promises to be the single largest peace time expansion of the Federal Government since the Great Depression,”
It would need offices on the moon to beat the bloat created by that fascist in the Oval Office now.
@rickw
Thank you, someone gets it. No one person, people or group is any more important than anyone else. Email me at uandme1019@gmail.com and I will send any of you something that really could work to benefit all. Will, don’t know, could it absolutely.
Steve Jobs for President.?
The days of Laissez-faire are over.
The days of Laissez-faire ended before any of us were born. What we’re going through right now is a failure of central planning. It didn’t work for the soviets, and it didn’t work for us, either.
Turns out that the Federal Reserve is no better at picking the right level for interest rates, than the soviets were at setting production quotas for wheat.
-jcr
Why shouldn’t this election be a referendum on George Bush when one of the candidates is promising to continue his policies?
Sorry to break it to you sunshine, but they BOTH are promising to continue his policies. They both voted for the bailout.
-jcr
If dollars translate into votes
My vote isn’t for sale. I think for myself despite the campaign propaganda.
Fsck Silicon Valley. I’d rather be Amish than associated with this.
Silicon Valley can kiss my f’n a’hole! God Damned liberal pieces of shit. Maybe we should just send all of our f’n jobs over to china now. And Apple leads the way. F U Apple, F U Steve P Jobs.
This is a sad day for the American way of life. Obama and the Democratic Congress will destroy this country. I’m amazed at the number of people that think that they’ll be taken care of by government.
We will go into a Depression. Obama is naive and arrogant and the white liberals have vindicated their guilt by having foisted an extremely unqualified black man of questionable character into the presidency.
You Right Wing Nut Jobs crack me up!
The country has FINALLY BEEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK and…
YOU LOSE!
Thank God that your ilk’s rain of ignorance, divisiveness and incompetence has finally come to an end!
Just stay out of our way! Watch and LEARN how INTELLIGENT people run a country!
My vote isn’t for sale. I think for myself despite the campaign propaganda.
Not wishing to be cynical, but everyone’s vote is for sale: what differs in each case is the price: the rich will sell their vote for politicians who preserve their wealth, the poor will sell their vote for anyone who promises social mobility or better public services, the enviromentalists, the military-industrial types and the evangelicals sell their votes to politicians who will support their special interests.
Fsck Silicon Valley. I’d rather be Amish than associated with this.
You let me know how that works out for you.
Oh, you won’t be able to.
Silicon Valley can kiss my f’n a’hole! God Damned liberal pieces of shit. Maybe we should just send all of our f’n jobs over to china now. And Apple leads the way. F U Apple, F U Steve P Jobs.
ZachCube,
Firstly, try decaffeinated.
Secondly, in common with the entire Western world, you’ve already sent a ludicrous amount of manufacturing and services East to China, Taiwan and India. And you’ve sent a shedload of money along with it.
The PRC sends us all container ships filled with goods and the US sends them back T-bills. It was the price of keeping inflation low. We all made a bargain with the devil and now you have to pay the price.