2016 Postmortem
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Bernie Sanders is seeing a surge of support from well-off, leftwing staff at tech firms such as Apple and Google. Is it because they can see the game is rigged?
For the first time in a long time, its fun to be a member of the American left. A socialist is within spitting distance of the White House. Bernie Sanders may not win the nomination, but his extraordinary primary run has proven the mainstream viability of leftwing politics in a country thats spent decades drifting to the right.
The core pieces of the coalition thats made his achievement possible are well-known from exit polls: millennials, lower-income Americans, and independents. But Bernies also benefited from another, more surprising bloc of support, one that may prove just as important to the future of American leftism: tech workers.
According to analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings by the Center for Responsive Politics, four of the top five employers of Sanders donors are tech companies. Google is number one, its employees having contributed more than $200,000. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon occupy the third, fourth and fifth spots respectively. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has no tech companies in her top five, and only one in her top 20.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/18/bernie-sanders-techies-support-socialism-capitalism
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