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  And losing, they felt more and more deeply as the campaign
  went on, would mean horrible things for the country. They 
  started to worry about the next Supreme Court Justices
  while they coded.

Is it too naive to think that Reed and his team are able to influence the Administration's policies? Their ability to raise Billions of dollars and increase voter participation must trump 'regular' moneyed interests.

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Because they would gladly go work for republicans if Obama did not listen to their opinions?

But this glosses over the undertones of the article - that is, the Obama campaign was able to attract these people precisely because the Democrats were more forward-thinking, more progressive, younger, and more open-minded. Are the Republicans capable of building this thing? Sure - but probably not with a lot of the same talent that has traditionally shared the same progressive views that the Democrats support.

There is plenty of top-grade politically-conservative technical talent in America.

Yes, Silicon Valley leans left in some ways, and politically conservative developers are outnumbered. The Democrats could probably pull together enough people for fifty top-quality campaign teams, while the Republicans could probably only manage five.

That said, the Democrats put together one top-quality campaign team while the Republicans put together zero - and those are the numbers that matter.

There's a large percentage of Silicon Valley that is at least fiscally conservative - if the Republicans would just soften up on social issues I imagine many of them would jump ship.

Just for the record they didn't raise billions of dollars. They raised 100s of millions.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance

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