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Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by neogodless on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:03AM (#25916478)
Is "politicians that uphold the constitution" a political affinity?
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by markstos on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:09AM (#25916547)
This. It's one thing to be left or right leaning.

It's another to continue to attack the democratic process after dozens of court cases have found an election to be fair and claims unsubstantiated.

What was widespread was the allegations of fraud. That's very different than findings of widespread fraud, of which there were not.

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by Merman_Mike on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:07AM (#25916525)
90%+ of Alphabet employee donations go to one party [1]. So, that affiliation.

[1] https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contribu...

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by tzs on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:18AM (#25916684)
That's employee donations. Donations from Google are nearly evenly split most years [1].

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by ttt0 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:10AM (#25916570)
Previous CEO of Google essentially worked for Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 elections.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:09AM (#25916561)
Its well established the educated tend to vote left. This is not the same as affiliation
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by mrweasel on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:27AM (#25916848)
I’m not going to pretent to under the US politician system, but isn’t kinda weird that the employees of a single company almost exclusively vote the same way?

Doesn’t that show a huge lack of diversity?

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by rsynnott on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:59AM (#25917275)
In any country where voting preferences are strongly correlated with education (like the US, where it's particularly strong, but this effect exists in most places to some extent) you'd expect this sort of thing when looking at a company that generally mostly hired highly educated people.

_Age_ is likely also a factor. Google's employee base would be younger than many companies, but in general employees of most companies would be likely to vote more for the left in the US than the general population, because people above working age are more likely to vote for the right.

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by rangoon626 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:38AM (#25917015)
The only care about diversity as a tool to further their own agenda. Countless examples of big tech attacking or ousting diverse people who voiced their own opinion that was contra to the narrative.
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:32AM (#25916928)
I dont know why you think the overall donation rates of an entire company of employees is the same thing as the voting rates of individual employees. The article notes that Eric Schmidt is one of the largest donors that are included. The article makes no claims as to the relation to amount donated per employee who even bothered to donate.
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by spijdar on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:22AM (#25916761)
Exit polls for the 2020 election show that there was an almost 50/50 split between Biden and Trump across multiple ascending education levels, the only exceptions are those with a postgraduate education, who voted 62/37 for Biden/Trump.
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by marz0 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:37AM (#25917001)
This graph[0] shows that there's a difference between college degree vs no college degree.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184427/presidential-ele...

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by danaris on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:41PM (#25919567)
The graph (or at least its legend?) appears to be paywalled.

(...OK, it looks like they will let you view it for free, but only if you sign up, aka let them sell your personal data.)

Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by bsagdiyev on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:20AM (#25916721)
I’m educated. I don’t vote left or right typically even though my vote is pointless in California, does that make me uneducated now?
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:25AM (#25916813)
Clearly there is a logic flow problem if you equate "educated means you tend to vote left" == "not voting left means you're not educated"
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by insickness on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:39AM (#25917028)
How is voting against election results not upholding the constitution? Doesn't the constitution give the power to do this?
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by djschnei on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#25916661)
It's always so striking to me each party's ability to hold the constitution on a holy pedestal when it suits their needs and to utterly disregard it when it does not... Here's to democrats bucking that trend over the next 4 years! (off to a terrible start though)