Teach Your Children Well
Posted by Mark on August 14, 2007
Donations from college professors are pouring in to the Democratic Party. Uh gee……no shocker there.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama received about $1.5 million in contributions this year from college professors and others in the education field, outpacing the party’s front-runner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who got $940,000 from academics.
Still, Clinton’s near-$1-million second-place finish was almost as much as academia’s total combined donations to leading Republican candidates Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain.
That many college professors and academics lean to the political left is no surprise — 76 percent of their donations went to Democratic candidates in the first two quarters of 2007. But the volume of their donations is increasing, according to an analysis by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), which tracks money in politics.
One bit of data I did find….that also proved what I already knew-
The second largest sum came from the University of California — $248,488 - with 90 percent of those donations going to Democrats.
On a related note, employees of the University of California, which has nine campuses, contributed more to 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s campaign than any other employer, including corporations.
90 percent- empirical and ridiculously true. Reason number….uh I think I’m up to…FOUR HUNDRED and sixty three- why I wanted to raise a child…anywhere but California.
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August 14, 2007 at 9:47 am
It is no surprise that academecians would support a democrat while big business doles out money to the GOP.
August 14, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Surprising… No.
Disturbing… Always.
You can’t feign balanced education and open mindedness, and then show yourselves to be so one-sided and expect not to be called on it. Academicians are hypocrites of the first order and their actions continue to reinforce that perception.