Today is Election Day, and although, practically-speaking, nothing can or will change who you’re going to vote for, an interesting conversation that I’ve had with a few people (and I’d love to hear more!) is whether or not the candidates policies on technology have been a deciding factor (or at least a strong helpful indicator) of who you’re going to vote for.

Does it?

Do you actually know enough of Obama’s and McCain’s technology policies, period?  I have yet to meet of someone who’s voting for a particular candidate soley on their technology policy, but I’d love to meet one!

And, I think, it’s an important issue.  For many of us (especially those who are reading this) technology plays a huge role in our lives.  Certainly the policies of the man in the house-of-white and their “read” on technology should be important, right?

Here’s a portion of Obama’s platform:

And here are some major points (you can read more here):

• Barack Obama will protect the openness of the internet:

Obama and Biden strongly support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.

• Deploy a modern communications infrastructure:

Obama and Biden believe we can get true broadband to every community in America.

• Improve America’s competitiveness:

Obama and Biden will ensure our goods and services are treated fairly in foreign markets, invest in the sciences, and will provide new research grants to the most outstanding early-career researchers in the country.

And here’s some from McCain (you can read more here):

• Encourage investment in innovation
• Develop a skilled work force
• Champion open and fair trade
• Reform intellectual property protection
• Keep the Internet and entrepreneurs free of unnecessary regulation
• Ensure a fully connected citizenry

For the most part, it appears that they stand pretty close together… (but it appears Barack knows about clean urls…)

Your thoughts this election day?