TechCrunch Endorses Barack Obama and John McCain

Via TechCrunch: Tech President Primaries.

"It’s sadly clear that our current leaders have little understanding of technology and why it’s important to our economy and culture. That has to change.

"We’ve been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months to get them to state, on record, their positions on ten key technology related issues (Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich).

"In December we announced that we were also holding a Tech President primary here at TechCrunch, where readers could vote on the candidate that they thought had the best policies on these ten key issues. The poll ended yesterday, and the results can be seen here. Barack Obama won the Democrat side, with 60% of the votes (John Edwards took second). Ron Paul won the Republican vote with 73% of those votes (John McCain took second).

"Those results are meaningful indicators of how our readers feel about the candidates. In addition, taking into account those votes as well as our own analysis, we are endorsing one candidate from each party: Barack Obama for the Democrats and John McCain for the Republicans."

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As a bonus: See the consequences of negative campaigning. Then ignore the rhetorics and follow the money.

Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the heads up!