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Apparently techies in NoCal are either a very liberal bunch, or they aren't paying attention. Pelosi should have been gone ages ago, but she wins every time by

Apparently techies in NoCal are either a very liberal bunch, or they aren't paying attention. Pelosi should have been gone ages ago, but she wins every time by a huge margin.

rdl 13y ago
SF voters are largely not techies. People who vote tend to be boomers or older, and organized (union, other political types, more organized or regulated industries). Techies tend to be younger, more transient, often non citizens, etc, so not a great voting bloc, even in SF. Her district, CA-12, is SF City and County proper; there are probably only 50k techies by any definition in a city of around 800k. I'd estimate around 10-15k voters. Out of that group you probably have a higher than usual number of libertarian or green or other third-party voters too; probably far fewer party-line Democrats.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  I know a good number of boomer techies... More seriously, we should get the unions riled about this. Increased police powers and surveillance have not, historically, been kind to labor.
  - hobs 13y ago
    Do police like increased police powers? http://iupa.org/ http://iupa.org/ - Police AFL CIO (unions of course)
    - dllthomas 13y ago
      They're not necessarily big on handing them to the NSA.
      - reeses 13y ago
        True, while warrants are not necessary for the NSA to snoop, they don't like sharing with local LE. Depending on the quality of your local police, they have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
shill 13y ago
I think it's safe to assume that lawmakers in the pocket of the surveillance state are going to continue to be 're-elected' as many times as they wish.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  I think it's dangerous to assume that.