Additionally, when there is a potentially negative association with a particular political choice (i.e. the choice of something other than pg's preferred option

Additionally, when there is a potentially negative association with a particular political choice (i.e. the choice of something other than pg's preferred option), one will obviously refuse to report, and will usually not make one's refusal explicit. That is to say, that even were we to assume that the 32 people pg asked were utterly representative of the startup community as a whole (which I don't think we have grounds to do, esp. given pg's own sensationalist headline), we have every reason to suspect that the 9 people who have refused to answer (including explicitly and implicitly) may have an answer other than the expected norm. Take that into account, and you have 15 Obama 6 Romney 9 Refuse to answer Where does that leave us? Well, with more questions than answers, to start with.