The US Presidential race has candidates chasing dollars like hounds after a fox, and one of their favorite destinations in rich Silicon Valley has been Google.
Politicians Continue Courting Googlers
latest visitor to Mountain View. Google's Adam Kovacevich posted about his appearance, met by an overflow crowd.
Paul is no panderer to the masses. Kovacevich noted how Paul's views of net neutrality (he's against it) or federal student loans (against those too) likely ran against the grain of Googlers. A show of hands found many attending Paul's speech had been student loan recipients at one time.
His appearance followed those of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Bill Richardson and John Edwards. If one of them managed to capture the fancy of enough young Google millionaires, the candidate could be entering the primary season in 2008 with a lot of contribution-fueled confidence. 
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