October 29, 2008 by Peter Leyden
The Merc News of Silicon Valley compared the presidential candidates in a recent story and dug deep to come up with reasons that the tech industry might be interested in McCain as well as Obama. It was utterly unconvincing, but did provide some numbers that make the Obama case.
One metric is: Follow the money. As the story said: “The non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics found that tech-industry political action committees, entrepreneurs and employees gave Obama four times as much money as they gave McCain.” That would seem to be an indication of preference.
The chart that accompanied the story shows a breakdown between the two candidates by company. Pretty lopsided right down the line. Google stuck out: $485,961 for Obama, and $20,600 for McCain. That works out to Obama getting 23 times as much.
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