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54. Not sure where you are getting your statistics

Basing political affiliations on polls from the last presidential election does not seem to align with your uncited claims.

[strong]Tech Workers Favor McCain, Obama[/strong]
"Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents said they supported Obama"
"Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents said they supported McCain"
"13 percent said they supported Senator Hillary Clinton"
"11 percent said they supported Mike Huckabee"
"9 percent of respondents said they supported Ron Paul"

"Beyond the support for McCain and Obama, IT workers tend to describe themselves as more conservative than the general U.S. population, but they feel less affiliation with one of the two major political parties, according to the survey. Thirty-nine percent of respondents called themselves conservative, 36 percent called themselves moderate and 24 percent called themselves liberal.

But 40 percent of respondents called themselves "other" when the main choices were Democrat or Republican. Thirty-five percent said they were Republican, and 26 percent said they were Democrats."

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/143730/tech_workers_favor_mccain_obama.html

Note: I don't believe that this poll was conducted under rigid scientific methodologies to produce accurate results. But neither is posting your own generalized, non-scientific, claims. Basing these numbers off of political contribution amounts is a bogus metric as well because it could be argued that the more someone gives to a political candidate actually shows a lower score of intellect.

As for taking the political pulse of people you "friended" on Facebook. I would think that most people generally converse with people that they have like-minded interests, so that factoid isn't very meaningful.