{"id":3642,"date":"2012-11-29T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2012-11-29T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:23:21","slug":"the-nerd-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3642","title":{"rendered":"The Nerd Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver observes that political contributions from employees at tech companies like Google and Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/28\/in-silicon-valley-technology-talent-gap-threatens-g-o-p-campaigns\/\">overwhelmingly favored Obama<\/a> in the most recent election cycle. He goes on to make a reasonable assumption that tech professionals willing to donate to a campaign are more likely to volunteer or work for that campaign. That&#8217;s not to say that nobody in tech votes Republican, but Democrats likely have a deeper bench of geek talent from which to draw upon when campaign season rolls around again.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans hope to stay competitive in the long term, they&#8217;d better figure out how to close this talent gap. They might start with rediscovering science and silencing the truly stupid know-nothings in their ranks. And while Democrats have established themselves as the masters of the data-driven campaign, they need to demonstrate that they can bring their geek fu to bear in mid-term elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver observes that political contributions from employees at tech companies like Google and Apple overwhelmingly favored Obama in the most recent election cycle. He goes on to make a reasonable assumption that tech professionals willing to donate to a campaign are more likely to volunteer or work for that campaign. That&#8217;s not to say <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3642' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tech","category-18-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-WK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}