Interesting observations.
For ten years or so I spent about half my time in the Bay Area (the rest near Austin).
I never quite could figure out why Silicon Valley went so big for a marxist. Clinton, that at least made some sense. But Obama? Why?
My guess is because he was hip and happening and trendy and voting for him made people feel good about themselves.
The question is, how do these people, with the economy and the country in tatters, feel now?
Homework assignment for some Freeper in the (SF Bay Area) South Bay/Peninsula/Upper Silicon Valley: see if you can take a tour through the more expensive/exclusive residential neighborhoods and take a tally of yard signs. Drive through, but don't linger or be too obvious about it. What do you see? Whose signs dominate?