Silicon Valley Donors are Progressive: Who Knew?

Twitter: New data from Crowdpac, a for-profit company that analyzes political giving, demonstrates just how much more often those in Silicon Valley give to Democrats rather than Republicans (Crowdpac.com)

Crowdpac derived a list of all the donations from employees of major Silicon Valley tech companies, venture capital firms and the two major research universities in the area, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. 

The results showed an overwhelming preference in the valley for liberal politicians. And while Republican politicians are making inroads with some key big money donors in the tech capital, the Crowdpac data paints a clear picture of what a challenging environment it is for conservatives. It also helps explain why Republicans find it hard to recruit talent from Silicon Valley to work on their campaigns: Most tech company employees skew left. 

Partly this is due to California's politics, where most elected officials statewide and in Congress are Democrats, and to the especially liberal environment in the Bay Area. But as the valley becomes an increasingly lucrative fundraising destination, the GOP will need to do a better job of competing. 

Of the tech firms, Twitter has the most liberal employee universe, with 100 percent of its employees’ 23 political donations going to liberal candidates.

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