Tim O'Reilly is a big name in the geek world. His eponymous publishing house has sold some of the best programming books for many years.
In a radical departure from his usual writing, he's published a stirring endorsement of Barack Obama.
Geeks tend to be libertarian to centrist sorts, though substantially less religious than the average American. (I'm far more concerned with the 'problem of the weak' than most American geeks.) My tribe should have been a natural constituency for McCain.
The old, pre-Palin, non-demented McCain.
Instead, donation reports from Google, Apple, Microsoft and my own employer show that 80% of geeks support Obama. Not coincidentally, the Economist's world-wide reader survey found that 80% of US registered Economist readers support Obama.
O'Reilly fits right into this picture.
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