Experts: McCain, Obama Both Good for IT Spending
Regardless of who wins the White House on Tuesday, both presidential candidates’ agendas would have significant impact on the information technology outlay of state and local governments, according to consulting firm INPUT's experts, who have been mining the major policy positions of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama and posting their analysis on the company's B2G Exchange blog.
"The candidates only rarely discuss policies with direct IT implications for state and local governments, such as REAL ID,” INPUT's Chris Dixon said in a release. “Yet, you do find some surprising nuggets with IT implications, such as Barack Obama’s support for more intelligence fusion analysts at the state and local levels and John McCain’s commitment to using tele-health technologies in healthcare." "A lot of folks will ask us which candidate will be ‘better’ for state and local IT," INPUT's Tim Brett added. "In our view, they are both very big on IT."
In the end, the next president will have to negotiate with Congress to win the legislation and funding that will drive state and local governments' IT decisions, they said. Plus, the economic downturn will most likely dominate the first 100 days of the new administration and Dixon and Brett believe that some sort of stimulus is likely to trickle down to states and localities via federal grant programs.
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