Robert McLaws (who describes himself as a “moderate Republican”) looks at tech employee campaign contributions broken down by company and party:

Robert writes:

It’s still too early in the game to draw concrete conclusions, but here’s the patterns I see thus far. As Todd already determined, Google’s employees are by far the most politically active, with Microsoft coming in a relatively close second, and IBM in third. Microsoft had by far the most people contribute to the Republican party, but there was still an enormous relative gap in spending between the two parties over at everyone’s favorite Collective.

What really shocked me was the gap in spending between the political parties at Google and Yahoo. Yahoo didn’t have a single soul contribute to the Republican party, which means that right-leaning employees either smart to wait it out, or they simply don’t exist. Only time will tell which one it is.

Almost as shocking was the fact that the Republicans are currently winning at both Apple and Adobe. I don’t think you can draw any conclusions from that yet, though. One contributor could easily turn the tides at both companies, and it seems that employees on both sides of the ideological fence are waiting for the process to separate the wheat from the chaff (although that colorful phrase suggests there are amazing candiates in the field, a view which I don’t share as of yet).

The breakdown of contributions by candidate mirrors overall national trends, with Hillary leading up the Democrats and Mitt Romney leading the Republican pack.