Letters to the Editor
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djd
And neither is Obama.
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Silicon Valley
I really thought Obama would win here. Both congress women in Silicon Valley endorsed him. Silicon valley is made up of Santa Clara County and the northern part of San Mateo county. The area is large and includes both wealthy educated, working class and Hispanic populations. Hillary gets her votes from the working, middle and Hispanics. Obama get his voter from Well educated. There were thousands of targeted calls made in this area by Obama volunteers.I was surprised becauses the calls I made showed Obama being favored 2 to 1 over Hillary, but then I live in a wealthy precinct. Hillary got her biggest leads in the outlying conservative counties.
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Aisan population large in Silcon Valley
Asians is one group the pundits and campaigns have totally ignored. But Asians are a very diverse group in and of itself here.Asians are from every where here.... India, China, Japan, Veitnam, Korea, Thailand, the list goes on:
Beides all the different cities:
San Jose. lots of middle to working and middle class
Cupertinio: Mixed
Sartoga: Wealthy
Santa Clara: mixed
Sunnyvale: mixed:
Mountain View: Mixed:
Los Altos: middle to high income and (more conservative)
Los Altos Hills: Wealthy (conservative)
Palo Alto Hills: Wealthy
Palo Alto: mixed but many Wealthy, educated
East Palo Alto: mixed
Menlo Park: Middle to wealthy (conservative)
Portola Valley: educated, wealthy
Woodside west of 280. Wealthy, educated
Woodside est of 280 Mixed
Atherton: Wealthy
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@bernbart
Education, no educations, wealth, poverty, age, gender and race, is no antidote for racist views and attitudes.
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@ aburkett I like Futurama, too!
Even though I am a strong Obama supporter, I gotta say, that hypnotoad is funny. See, just like in Rodney King's dream, we CAN all get along!
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damnthatxandu
you go from post to post, claiming that Obama supporters are going to call the author racists and making outrageous claims about Obama and his supporters, but it never happens. The people who criticized this article made a good point - if you check the demographics of Silicon valley, it is mostly Hispanic and Asian. Why don't you try, just once, addressing some of the substantive points people make? You aren't fooling anyone with your diatribes. Seriously, grow up!
damnthatxandu said:
Any thing seen as the least positive for Clinton is immediately suspect by Obama supporters. I'm sure the next post to pop up will say you're racist for even suggesting that the vote was even real. And of course if you argue the point, you must be a Clinton shill.
And of course, REAL democrats could NEVER vote for Clinton. There MUST of been some mistake!!! Or obviously they were Latino or Asian. How racist to think anything else!
OF COURSE, all techie people MUST support Obama. NO one at Google or anywhere on the net ever supports Clinton.
And, didn't you know, it's a plot. Clinton didn't REALLY win California! Everyone everywhere HATES her. So how could that ever be?
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One more thing
I am an Obama supporter, a woman, long time Democrat who just retire from a career in Silicon Valley. I can understand why many women in Silcon Valley might have voted for Hillary. Any woman who worked as an employee or as a vendor a Silicon Semiconductor high tech company here in 70s knows what it is like to deal with the "Old Boys Club". I think the term "old boys' may have been invented here. The "old boys", of the silicon chip innovators were the most nortorous sexist in history.
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Excuse me
I really don't thinks I made a racist remarks. Wealth and education has nothing to do with race, especially in Silicon Valley. It is true that Obama seems to be attracting more educated wealthy voters. Maybe thye can see through the bull.
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smart people chosing to vote for a woman - the horror!
Have you any idea how inherently sexist your argument is?
“On the other hand, techies are a notoriously independent, well-educated bunch -- they're Obama's base”. Has it occurred to you that this well-educated bunch exercised their said brain power and decided that Clinton’s message was more substantial, so they voted for her.
“There is no doubt, too, which candidate won the hearts and minds of SiliValley types”. Really? If this statement were in anyway true, then why didn’t they vote for him?
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@bernbart
Sorry. Did not imply that you made any racist remarks. Not at all. Just saying that racist views and attitudes are held within a cross section of any society, especially immigrant societies, regardless of wealth and education. East Indians voted overwhelmingly twice for Bush as did other first generation immigrants. Now, they are voting for Hillary who is not that liberal if you know what I mean. And she is a thousand times better than Bush but is still a Washington insider and beholden to White supremacy.
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Why is anyone surprised by this?
Obama is consistently losing among the most practical people: tech, Asians, Latins, elderly Americans who have already learned their hard lessons, professional women, you name it. These people understand experience and a knowledge of policy DOES matter. They understand what it's like to have rhetoric freshman in office and what it can do to a nation - we've seen it for 8 years.
They know if it's Obama or McCain, it's someone who has a slew of bills , several bipartisan who has in fact proven he can work across the aisle to some extent, who has 30 years on the Senate Armed Forces Committee as well as his POW status to tout and who can trot out Joe Lieberman versus, Obama with a slew of skeletons the press has willfully evanded for now and who hasn't even finished a single Senate term (where he's even show up to vote or hasn't voted "present").
Obama will lose in a landslide and smart, practical people understand that. They don't insist, despite all evidence appearing right before our eyes, that everyone is going to rush out and vote Democrat in reaction to Bush.
The only ones who like him are some young college kids, racist blacks, and of course some so-called "liberal" white men who are never satisified with our mainstream candidate and always have to play spoiler who just can't get over Hillary's preauth vote. (but somehow COULD get over John Edwards and Obama's funding of Iraq to the tune of 300billion bills).