Valley Of The Dollars
It’s the Silicon Primary. Candidates are competing for support from rich, young techies whose libertarian tendencies defy traditional partisan loyalty. Most, like Minor, are socially liberal, but fiscally conservative and wary of regulation. When a group of House Democrats recently visited the headquarters of eBay, the online auction house, options-holding hipsters lectured them on the intricacies of encryption policy and e-commerce. Visitors took notes as Gene Hoffman, the goateed 23-year-old CEO of eMusic....