Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised?

[goldcanyonaz]

It must have come as a surprise to the boisterous Barack Obama supporters who were flagging down commuters at light rail stations south of San Francisco after work on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton won far more votes in Silicon Valley than did her rival from Illinois.

In Santa Clara County, home to Google, Apple, Yahoo, Intel, HP, and Sun Microsystems, Clinton won a commanding 54.8 percent share of the vote.

Obama, by comparison, won only 39.3 percent. That's a remarkable margin of 16 percentage points. It's far more than the 9.5-point margin that Clinton claimed statewide, meaning Obama fared worse in Silicon Valley than he did in the rest of California.

By an 8-point margin, Clinton also bested Obama in neighboring San Mateo County immediately to the north, which is home to YouTube, Spoke.com, and Internet-monitoring firm Keynote.com.

http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9866211-38.html

[AX10]

1. K & R!

As someone who works in business, I will tell you that mantra only gets you so far.
You better be ready to have the goods to sell.

[lurky]

2. Huge Latino and Asian communities in the South Bay

[Sensitivity]

6. To be specific: SAN JOSE, REDWOOD CITY,

Very large latino populations in cities throughtout the Peninsula.

[Cant trust em]

3. Guess where Hillary lost.

The City of San Francisco. 52-44.

We had a great grassroots movement in the city with people sitting on the floor of headquarters phone banking on their cell phones. Canvassing at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning in the rain. I'm tremendously proud to have worked on this campaign.

[TheFarseer]

9. that's awesome

thank you for your efforts. I'm trying to get as mnay Obama people as I can to caucus for him on Saturday. I think we will have a more favorable result in my state :)

[Straight Shooter]

4. I am pleasantly surprised!

A friend called me yesterday, or the day before, to rub in my face (in a joking way), that SV was going for Barack.

Ha ha, my turn to rub it in! In a joking way, of course. :)

[Life Long Dem]

5. Yes, I am surprised.

[TeamJordan23]

7. He won San Francisco by a large margin. nm

[berni_mccoy]

8. Not at all. Kaiser Permanente is based out of there and they are the one of the largest

consumers of IT in the U.S.

And they make huge contributions to Clinton. Not surprised at all.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

10. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM REPUBLICAN - LITE

THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. HAH must be all them "lunch pail voters that voted for Hillary" not "highly educated Obama voters"