Comments on: Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised?

Sen. Barack Obama was the darling of the tech crowd and the winner of online polls and primaries. So why did he lose to Hillary Clinton so badly in Silicon Valley?

[slamja]

Have You Considered

Have you considered the fact that perhaps these Counties (Santa Clara and San Mateo) are pretty diverse. Not everyone works for Yahoo or Google.

[chash360]

Any Vote tampering?

How was the vote conducted? After the florida trials that have hardly seen the light of day, over the diebold electronic voting scam. We know they have successfully hacked and changed election results before. Literally swapping vote percentages on the canidates.

Is there a possibility this has occurred yet again?

[sfgurl]

Santa Clara County demographics

Good column, but you forgot to mention one VERY BIG factor:
demographics. People who live in Santa Clara Valley -- Silicon
Valley -- and who they are AND WHO VOTES. They're a lot of
white, Latino and Asian families. A lot of folks who work at these
tech companies may not live in Santa Clara County; they live
elsewhere, and vote in other counties and may have voted for
Obama (like neighboring Alameda or San Francisco counties).
There are newsreports that say that HIllary appealed more to
Latino voters (and Asian?) and that Obama vastly appealed to
blacks and younger voters and has a crossover appeal to white
voters. Don't forget demographics in all of this. ...

[sciolle]

comprehensive answers vs. flea-weight glossing and generalities

If anyone of you have ever read over the "bushisms" (google it in) and then listen to Clinton vs Obama, the following is a vague comparison.
Clinton gives complete ideas and explanations, Obama talks in generalities and waves a flag. Listen to his answers and listen to hers - any question. He doesn't talk like Bush at alll, but he knows little in depth. Glosses and waves the flag.

[Len Bullard]

Within The Law Not By Revolution

You are saying that. I am saying there is a system of government in place and in accordance with existing law. If you want to replace that, you have to do that within the framework of the law or you are corrupting the government.

[Ramalaka2]

Tooth Fairy? Santa Claus? .

The only difference is the configuration of the letters that comprise their names. Both the Dems and Repubs are corrupt. We need to throw everyone out of power like we did to the British way back starting 1776 and ending in 1783.

If you believe any politician will change things, put your tooth under the pillow in exchange for some cash from the Tooth Fairy and go visit Santa at the mall. Resist, revolt, overthrow....

[yfan]

Silicon Valley

has pretty much always been a huge block for Clinton. A lot of techies remember the boom days of the 90s fondly (nothing wrong with that) and long for another Clinton.

Within the Silicon Valley, it is notable that Barack Obama won Congressional district 14 - the district that is home to both Yahoo (Sunnyvale) and Google (Mountain View). But if you have ever been to a meeting of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, it is flooded with people who have been there forever - sort of the Democratic status quo. And they have always liked Clinton and despised Obama, in their judgment an upstart who "didn't wait his turn."

[tetsuyo]

Elites support Obama

Sure it seems that a lot of technology folks voted for Obama. I would even say that a majority did in California. The problem is that Obama seems to get his main support form moneyed interest while Clinton is carrying the populist vote which many techies don't understand and polls underestimate. I will take the populist support anyday over the moneyed interest. So it is not just the latino vote that is propelling Clinton to victory it is a majority of average Americans who see in her a leader who represents their needs and desires. Thats is more like the America that we need to get back to.

Obama is getting a lot of support from conservatives that are hoping that he can upset Clinton in the primaries but in the general election, that support will dry up.
So I am not surprised that Obama seemed to lose Silicon Valley just as I am not surprised to see him come from nowhere to be the darling of the elites in the democratic party.That is pretty much how Bush came up to win the Presidency in his party. The elite conservatives(the same people that supported Bush) know that the best way to get their interest supported is with a young, fresh inexperienced candidate like Obama. With Obama they can use the same kind of political sophistry(tricks) that they used to get Bush elected Bush in 2000.

[Patrick Cronin]

People who ACTUALLY VOTE perfer Hillary

I'm a professor and what few liberal students I have in the Bible Belt where I teach, of course prefered Obama to Hillary but NONE of them voted! I voted; and two other registered dems in my classes voted and we all voted for Hillary. The majority of my students, mostly right wing Republicans threw their vote away on Huckabee and Ron Paul.
Hillary is the only Democrat that can beat John Mc Cain and I'm hoping the rank and file Dems (I'm a 67 yr old white male by the way) will continue to vote for the most qualified candidate not the most charismatic

Pat Cronin