During the 2012 presidential campaign, Silicon Valley tech businesses overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama with their dollars. Here's a table, from Nate Silver:
Then, during election day, Obama won the Bay Area with an epic 49 point margin. Here's another Silver chart:
So, you'd think that these companies (and the voters who work for them) would have the newly re-elected Obama administration's ear, right? Maybe not. In mid-September, dozens of tech companies, including Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and Xerox, signed a letter asking Congress and the President to pass a bill called the STEM Jobs Act of 2012. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. The purpose of the bill is to increase the number of visas available by up to 55,000 for immigrants with advanced degrees in those fields.
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