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Randall does mention Obama's support of open data standards and net neutrality. These issues are not only related to "hacker news", but will have an effect on

• curi 19y ago
  But he shouldn't have. It's ridiculous to choose the President based on his opinion of net neutrality. There are much bigger things at stake.
  • brent 19y ago
    Exactly, he mentioned it as an issue, not as the decision maker. Given 2 otherwise equivalent candidates (not that they are) who differ on one small issue that you have a stance on, you vote for the one who you agree with. This is certainly an oversimplification, but the point is that you shouldn't completely ignore _relatively_ small issues because of the existence of bigger issues. They may just agree (enough) on all of the big issues that are important to you. You only get to choose one though!