Could today's vote really be about a fundamental American rift: high tech versus low tech? Exhibit A: this crazy map of the USA that looks redder than Russia. Don't get too excited: it's just the current weekly "straw poll" at AOL.com, where you need an AOL screen name to vote. "Maybe the poll says more about AOL users than it does US voters," says Silicon Alley Insider. "The reader who pointed us to the results writes: 'Proof Republicans only use dialup.'" On the other hand, witness Exhibit B: a recent poll of IT workers, who favor Obama over McCain 53 percent to 38 percent. It seems there's little doubt which candidate would be a more tech-tastic president, if that kinda thing matters to you. Wired's Epicenter insisted it couldn't find anyone to officially defend McCain's tech policies in a debate, and Gizmodo reported the McCain camp pulled out of Wired's planned online debate about technology. Meanwhile, an Obama administration just might be the first to hammer out policy ideas using wikis, suggests former FCC chairman Reed Hundt, at Cnet's Politics and Law blog. And how could anyone apologize enough for that?