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9,388 in Santa Clara disappointed to learn Edwards no longer running

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:38:15 EST

The top ten employers in California congressional District 15 include Cisco, Stanford, HP, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Intel and Google. Here's a hearty congratulations to the 9,388 of you voted for John Edwards. Good job. Too bad he isn't running for president anymore. Absentee voting by mail, a popular option in California, likely explains their votes. Another 8,104 of you voted for a guy — Mike Huckabee — who thinks Noah coaxed a T-Rex on board the Ark. Next time, if you want to participate in civic affairs, why not spend the afternoon editing Wikipedia? Here's how the rest of Santa Clara County voted, according to the Mercury News.

Democratic primary

113,032 for Clinton (55 percent)
80,946 for Obama (39 percent)
9,388 for Edwards (5 percent)

Republican primary

44,709 for McCain (50 percent)
23,050 for Romney (26 percent)
8,104 for Huckabee (9 percent)
4,643 for Paul (5 percent)

Huckabee to speak in San Francisco Thursday

Owen Thomas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:57:59 EST

There are, improbably, 25 self-avowed San Franciscans for Mike Huckabee. How the Bible Belt's favored candidate attracted even that many, I'm not sure. Huckabee himself, a known disbeliever in evolution, is coming to speak in the heartland of the biotech industry on Thursday. The Commonwealth Club is hosting the Republican presidential candidate at the Fairmont Hotel at noon. Tickets for nonmembers are $65. Cheap for feeding a Christian to the lions.

Digg selects the next president, Hillary not in running

Tim Faulkner — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:05 EST

The online news-voting site Digg has added a page tracking the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. Digg's a virtual unknown inside the Beltway, so the page's geek-skewed results aren't a true barometer of candidate popularity. They're more a gimmick by Digg founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose to guilt candidates into participating on their site. Predictably, the Internet's unlikely favorites lead: Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel on the Democratic side, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee on the Republican side. You can view the candidates' favorite Digg stories — or rather, some anonymous campaign staffers' favorite stories. The lone holdout among candidates with a real shot at the nomination? Hillary Clinton. Her lack of participation shows she understands the true value of Web 2.0 in today's presidential election: none. An image of the current "Digg the President" leaders after the jump.