CNET’s Declan McCullagh reports this interesting byte of information:

In Santa Clara County, home to Google, Apple, Yahoo, Intel, HP, and Sun Microsystems, Clinton won a commanding 54.8 percent share of the vote.

Obama, by comparison, won only 39.3 percent. That’s a remarkable margin of 16 percentage points. It’s far more than the 9.5-point margin that Clinton claimed statewide, meaning Obama fared worse in Silicon Valley than he did in the rest of California.

By an 8-point margin, Clinton also bested Obama in neighboring San Mateo County immediately to the north, which is home to YouTube, Spoke.com, and Internet-monitoring firm Keynote.com.

So why did Obama–who’s popular online and has been touted as a more tech-savvy candidate–lose the nation’s high-tech heartland by an embarrassing 16-point margin? If he should have won anywhere, it should have been those two counties. Right?

[CNET]

California Democratic Electoral Map