I think there's a deeper story here.... Politics -good or bad - tends to attract people with strong political views.

I mean how many brilliant (ex.)far-right, feminist vegans would work on a campaign for a left-of-center, sexist-"I love to eat nearly-extinct Northern Finnish deer" candidate?

The bigger question is why the Obama campaign was able to attract this level of engineering/technical talent.

I'm sure these individuals were not in want of a job.

I'm not sure how persuasive the argument "any one potential GOP candidate was denied the money/focus to start the development" is.

According to the GOP and the Fox News machine, the only people who supported Mssr. Obama were maxists-femi-nazi-pro-baby-killers and/or illegals who were offered free, student-loan forgiveness (not that they could ever get into Swarthmore or Reed or MIT without affirmative action)....or free cheese.

Either that or marvelously agile illegals who took a pass on self-deportation (the New Black Panther Party let them vote anyway).

But alas, I digress here....

I'm by no means unbiased myself. I think the 2 party political hegemony in the USA is a relic of the past.