Back in January, TechCrunch endorsed presidential candidates John McCain on the Republican side and Barack Obama on the Democratic side. We are not alone. From a survey of 600 IT professionals released on March 18 from the Computing Technology Industry Association:
If the 2008 Presidential Election were held today who would get the vote:
McCain 29%
Obama 29%
Clinton 13%
Huckabee 11%
Paul 9%
Not sure 9%
These stats are a bit old, but it is nice to see that we are in sync with the IT workers of America.
Update: The next question to ask is which IT workers would benefit from either of the two leading candidates. For McCain, at least, the answer seems to be the telecom industry. A story in USA Today points out that 23 of the 66 former or current lobbyists tied to his campaign have been telecom industry lobbyists. These include his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, chief adviser, Senate chief of staff, campaign co-chairman, and campaign finance director. He also sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the industry and the FCC.
McCain has the Verizon vote locked up, but he still needs to work on winning the Google vote.
(via Fred Wilson).
I would have to agree.
2 week old states, but why do they still have Huckabee and Paul as choices? Fairly sure they have dropped out by then
McCain is an old fart – America, regardless of political affiliation, doesn’t want a senior citizen as their president
Hope that Obama can bring some revolution to America that will impact world wide until the third world positively. Hmm.. at least the world wide web
I don’t like the way the question is worded. It seems to be asking who they think would win, not who they would actually vote for…
I’m actually quite surprised to see that many IT professionals with loyalty to McCain. I mean sure, there are only 600 people that are participating in this survey, but that percentage is still surprising. All the folks I work with are all for Obama, and a few for Ron Paul.
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Go Obama!
people who are for McCain are brand whores, just like Apple fan boys deepthroat anything Steve Jobs releases, so do Republicans deepthroat any Republican that wins the nomination. Regardless of his policies.
Hell McCain is like the only candidate who outright said that he has no idea or plans to try to fix the economy.
#5 I agree. It asks them who they think will ultimately get the nomination, not who they would vote for.
Interesting stats. It looks less rosy for the republicans than it seems at first glance, though. For example, I’m sure almost all of those 13% for Clinton will be for Obama if he gets the nomination, whereas a lot of the Huckabee supporters despise McCain.
you could have just posted this, instead of the 2-10 posts you wasted on your ”tech president” self promoting self serving piece of poo.
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Go Clinton!
@Arrington (and other CEOs): As a small business owner, I would assume you would love Clinton’s #1 priority – universal health coverage. No?
@Daniel: 15% of Florida dems said they would not vote in the general election unless FL’s primary votes were counted; that’s enough to tip FL (and possibly the country) to McCain.
to vrempire
Start your own tech revolution or tap into the entrepreneurial spirit of the companies covered in TechCrunch to bring about change and innovation vs. thinking the federal gov’t or its boss will come to the world’s rescue, especially on the Web.
@Markz
If you want somebody thoroughly connected with too many favors to repay to big corporate entities, vote Clinton. Then you can, as a small business owner, watch as your ability to compete is eroded by her inability to bring economic change.
I try to be decent when having these discussions but “small business owners” need to quit being idiots. Our general ability to compete is dwindling, because the deck is stacked against us by corporate lobbyists filling campaign coffers. Yet, we continue to get sucked into some bullshit campaign promise that will supposedly “help small business.”
I had similar discussions four years ago, telling folks to wake up about Bush, but no they said, “He’s pro-business and low taxes.” How well has that turned out? How many more Bush chickens are left to come home to roost?
Expect the same BS from Clinton…just look at her campaign contributions (especially those from lobbyists and defense contractors) and you can figure out what to expect.
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I wrote a post on my blog about the election and Google Trends…
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You basically have 3 flavors of US Senator to vote for as President, the old white guy, the middle aged woman and the young black guy. So, yes you have a “choice” — all from the same species, whose main profession is talking, not doing anything.
For the last 16 years we decided to elect slick Southern governors for President, for as much reason as he seemed like a guy you could have a beer with and because the “competition” was a boring US Senator (or former Senator).
If you want to vote for someone more of principle and less out of politics, then Ron Paul has to come to mind. He has opposed the war from the beginning, is a true fiscal conservative, believes in free enterprise. Yes, he is pro-life and he is a bit out there on some economic issues, but most techies can be pretty out there as well.
Any of the main contenders will do a couple things right and bunch wrong–it all depends of what kind of presidential screw ups can you tolerate? I’m kind of digging on Obama’s schtick right now but the reality is he is a typical Dem. union hack with no foreign policy experience. Hillary? Sheesh–no thanks. That leaves McCain. In the back of many people’s minds, they just feel a little safer with old McCain than the other two. He can’t screw up the economy any worse than it will get over the next year and maybe keep Paulson or hire a competent Treasury secretary to keep the Wall Street ulcer crowd mellow.