Tech Workers Favor McCain, Obama

Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:00 Prime Minister PDT

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IT workers look to wish and equally in the U.S. presidential race, but more than than a 3rd of respondents in a recent study preferred some other candidate.

Twenty-nine percentage of study respondents said they supported Obama, an Prairie State Democratic senator, and another 29 percent supported McCain, an Grand Canyon State Republican senator, according to the study by the (CompTIA) and polling house Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen Reports. Only 13 percentage said they supported Senator Edmund Hillary Clinton, a New House Of York Democrat.

But the study also establish important support for Microphone Huckabee, a Republican and former governor of Arkansas, who garnered 11 percentage of the respondents' votes, and Representative Bokkos Paul, a Lone-Star State Republican, who was supported by 9 percentage of respondents. McCain became the presumptive campaigner of the Republican Party on March 4, after the study was done in February and early March. Sizeable Ranks

Using the study results, CompTIA and Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen Reports estimation there are 12 million people in the U.S. World Health Organization place themselves as IT workers. That's four modern times the figure of IT workers classified by the U.S. Agency of Labor Statistics. Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen recently asked more than than than 54,000 U.S. workers about their occupations, and more than 8 percentage identified themselves as IT workers, said Roger Cochetti, CompTIA's grouping manager of U.S. populace policy.

Based on the study results, IT workers do up one of the biggest businesses in the U.S. and one of the most politically active groups, Cochetti said. The survey, of 600 self-identified IT workers, establish that 27 percentage have got used the Internet to lend to a political campaign. By comparison, less than 0.3 percentage of U.S. occupants have got contributed more than than US$200 to a U.S. political political campaign during the 2008 election cycle.

Political political campaigns would be wise to pay attending to this immense axis of IT workers, Cochetti added. "They set their money where their oral cavity is," he said. "Bottom line -- the IT worker vote axis is here to say. Attention to that axis won't just stop with the shutting of the '08 polls."
More Conservative, Independent

Beyond the support for McCain and Obama, IT workers be given to depict themselves as more than conservative than the general U.S. population, but they experience less association with one of the two major political parties, according to the survey. Thirty-nine percentage of respondents called themselves conservative, 36 percentage called themselves chair and 24 percent called themselves liberal.

But 40 percentage of respondents called themselves "other" when the chief picks were Democrat or Republican. Thirty-five percentage said they were Republican, and 26 percentage said they were Democrats.

Strong support for campaigners Huckabee and Alice Paul looks to demo a willingness to research thoughts out of the general mainstream, Cochetti said. "It reflects this highly independent nature of the IT workforce," he said.

Asked what was the most of import issue facing the adjacent president, 39 percentage of IT workers identified the economy, 18 percentage identified the warfare in Iraq, 15 percentage identified immigration, and 14 percentage said national security.

CompTIA bes after more than IT worker studies this year, with inquiries boring down into specific issues, Cochetti said. Politicians shouldn't disregard IT workers, but it may be difficult to aim the grouping because IT workers' sentiments are "not homogeneous," he said.

Asked about the chief factor that Pbs them to back up a candidate, 27 percentage of respondents said "specific issues." Another 25 percentage said vision, and 16 percentage said experience. Only 1 percentage identified a candidate's involvement in the IT sector.