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@JimK

Good point, Michigan is doing bad enough with Granholm at the Govenor's seat...

@EZK

My thoughts exactly...We all know Romney is a hypocritical politician along the lines of a Republican Bill Clinton, and Hillary....well that goes without saying

There are bigger issues out there than Video Games in politics. (Which is a good arguement against wasteing time legislating the game industry to death!) So I'm assumeing these people donated to candidates who shared more views with them than the others.

Everyone has a right to their opinion (even if they are wrong hehe) so things like this will happen.

Well, if I hated someone and they gave me a plate of cash, I'd warm up to them a bit.

@ -Jes-

Oh... Son of a... well, thanks for the heads up.

Please try to keep this discussion on topic. One of the reasons John Bruce was banned was because he constantly derailed threads.

If you would like to discuss the shooting there is athread for it in the Forums.

@Macboy

Agreed.

@EZK

Me. Friggin. Too. May as well get in bed with Lieberman at that point.

@Macboy: Why, so he can cripple the country with massive tax hikes? That'll sure help. Soon none of us will be able to afford that new console and list of AAA titles because President Jesus Kennedy Obama just skyrocketed the payroll tax to almost 60% and cranked income tax up on "the rich" even though "rich" in his plan is really middle class. Not to mention that stealing more tax dollars from the "rich" isn't any more moral than it is to steal the tax dollars from anyone else. It's all still government stealing your money at gunpoint. Literally.

It makes perfect sense for a video game company, moviemakers, etc... to support Hillary Clinton because she would nominate judges to the supreme court and lower courts that have a liberal view of the 1st Amendment. The legislation she proposes and supports wont become law anyhow, even she probably knows that. And if it ever did, her own judges would likely rule it unconstitutional.

Romney, on the other hand, would nominate judges that have a very narrow, conservative intperpretaion of the 1st Amend. That matters a hundred times more than what kind of legislation a candidate is for or how they demagogue the issue. In Romneys case, I think the stuff he said about video games, his \'sewer\' commercial,.. were just pandering to the religious right. I doubt he really cares about video games. But he is worse than a democrat (Hillary or Obama) because if he were elected he\'d owe conservatives and the religious right conservative judges. That applies to McCain too.

Also, I call bad form on reporting on the donations of people on that list who aren't established public figures. They shouldn't have expected to have their personal political beliefs "outed" like this, and you could cover the trends of how developers break down along party lines without using their names. The invasion of assumed privacy and possible negative impacts of telling the whole world that random code monkey Joe Schmo is a Ron Paul supporter far outweighs the good it does the readers. Just because something is public information doesn't mean it should be broadcast as news.

Alyric,

It is hard to tell with him. He ran as a liberal for senate in a liberal state, and governed as moderate/liberal as governor. Then ran as a conservative for president in a conservative party. Thats probably why he didnt get the nomination, he seemed to much like phony.

I think he\'s a capitalist, thats what he really believes, and he\'ll change on all the other issues if thats what the thinks he has to do to win.

@Alyric re: Romney

"God only knows what his real views are, or if he has any."

Excellent point. Something I wish more Romney supporters took notice of.

[...] As Gamepolitics remarks: It’s worth noting that a fair amount of the money donated went straight into the black hole of failed campaigns. [Activision CEO Bobby] Kotick and his wife, for example, each gave $2,300 to Republican Mitt Romney’s ill-fated bid. Valve’s Gabe Newell, creator of the Half-life series, gave Democrat Chris Dodd $2,300, while Spore designer Will Wright sent $3,500 Rudy Giuliani’s way (and made us wonder what Will thought he saw in the irascible former Big Apple mayor). [...]