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In elections, some voters matter; some don't. And Hillary Clinton has just told a powerful Silicon Valley constituency — graduates of India's most prestigious technical school — that they just don't rank an in-person visit. Clinton was supposed to give a keynote speech in Santa Clara today at the Indian institute of Technology 2007 Global Alumni Forum, an event sponsored by Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and Microsoft. But earlier this week, she announced that she'd be MIA. What's she doing instead?Why, she headed off to New Orleans, where she's vying with Barack Obama for African-American votes at the Essence Music Festival. Good luck with that. Sure, Clinton's still going to address the IIT conference — by satellite. That will hardly lessen the sting for the IIT alums, a brainy group which includes venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor who advised Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. And it also can't send a good message to sponsors like Google, which surely counted on Clinton's presence to score them points with the IIT engineers who make up a good portion of their staff. (Photo by Getty Images)