To what extent does a politician's computer platform of choice influence your vote?

I'm assuming that because we are all Mac aficionados here, if all things were even, the candidates were clones of each other, and the only defining factor was their computing platform, then we'd probably vote for the Mac users. But does this allegiance extend any further?

Admittedly, I do pay some minor attention to this. If I'm sitting on the fence, it might be enough to put me on one side or the other. I can't say that the platform constitutes a "single issue" vote for me, though.

What about you?

Peace,
Drew
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It is more than probable that most pollies, since the scratching and humping work of their office is done 'down there' by the underlings, if they can name a computing platform at all will never have heard of any but Windows. That is, if their office has migrated from DOS already. In that they will be as one with most of their constituents.

de
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not in the slightest. i look more towards their knowledge of how computers, and more precisely information sharing using computers, should operate and interact.

the actual platform they use is totally irrelevant in my opinion.

For me, it would be whatever their position is on various computer-related legislation -- i.e. whether or not they are going to cosign the internet radio equality act, or what they think about net neutrality.

I think the specific machine sitting on their desk shouldn't really have anything to do with it.
(it doesn't affect the type of person they are, or in most cases, their positions, I should think.)

but one using open-source software or something else "off the beaten path" might get extra "worth mentioning" points.
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