That seems to be the problem. The political environment these days is so overly partisan that the minute we get a candidate that focuses on issues that are important to us tech folks, everyone gets tripped over social policies and end up missing chances to work across the isle.
That's just a feature of having two parties dependent upon the same funding sources trying to differentiate themselves. There might be individual members of conscience, but there's somewhat of a Gresham's dynamic going on where they will be the first to get booted in favor of someone who will toe the line.
