Fwd: FC: Why does Silicon Valley vote against itself? by J.Glassman

[Jim Farmelant]

The obvious answer is that the Democrats are willing to give high tech
pretty much everything that they want, contrary to the special pleading
of the American Spectator, minus the baggage of a social conservatism
that runs contrary to high tech's libertarian instincts.

Jim F.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:27:28 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> [via Declan McCullagh}
> 
> <http://www.spectator.org/archives/0103TAS/glassman0103.htm>
> 
>     The American Spectator -- March 2001
> 
>     Smart Nerds, Foolish Choices
>     Why Silicon Valley votes against its interests
>     by James K. Glassman
> 
>     One of the deepest mysteries of this New Age is why Silicon 
> Valley --
>     as a geographic metaphor for smart, productive 
> high-technologists
>     around the country--prefers Democrats to Republicans. In the
>     presidential election, for example, voters in the two counties 
> in the
>     peninsula south of San Francisco--Santa Mateo and Santa Clara -- 
> chose
>     Al Gore over George W. Bush, 63 percent to 32 percent, with 4 
> percent
>     for Ralph Nader.
> 
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