The GOP Has a Tech Talent Problem It Might Not Solve

[LiberalArkie]

SCOTT WALKER’S WITHDRAWAL from the 2016 presidential race last month was tough on staffers like Matt Oczkowski—as it turns out, tougher than he thought.

Back in July, Walker looked like a GOP frontrunner. Knowing how critical tech was to President Obama’s 2012 re-election, the Walker campaign invested early in tech and digital talent. It hired people like Mark Stephenson, one of the Republican Party’s top data scientists, to be the campaign’s data director. Darren Bolding, a tech veteran-turned political operative, became its chief technology officer. And Oczkowski, who ran the governor’s digital strategy for his re-election campaign in Wisconsin, was hired to be digital director.

“We built an organization that was built for scale,” Oczkowski says. “It was a big group of people who were all in-house.”

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Tech’s leftist leanings are often cited as the main reason Democrats have excelled in the tech talent battle. Some of Silicon Valley’s marquee names, after all—Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Sergey Brin, Marc Benioff, and others—are known Democratic supporters. And while a Libertarian strain certainly runs through the tech industry, San Francisco’s liberal values tend to dominate. As former RNC chief technical officer and Facebook veteran Andy Barkett once put it in The Washington Post, “I knew who was gay on my team at Facebook, but I had no idea who was a Republican.”

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http://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-the-gop-just-cant-kick-its-tech-talent-problem/

[LonePirate]

1. That last quote highlights the growing decline of Republicanism among American's youth and cities

Demographic and social changes are pushing the Republican Party to extinction or at best irrelevancy.

[LiberalArkie]

2. And the reason right leaning Democrats don't click either.