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I believe we debated this a while back of course many claimed that a democratic bias among profs does not exist
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Profs. vote for Obama with wallets
By Michael Juel-Larsen and Josh Oppenheimer
Princetonian Staff Writers
All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is the runaway favorite candidate among those donors, having received $12,050 from Princeton employees. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew the second-highest total contributions from Princeton faculty and staff with $5,600. Other donations have gone to candidates including former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
In total, donors who listed the University as their employer have given $23,700 to presidential campaigns in the current election cycle. Of that, $21,900 — 92.4 percent — has gone toward Democratic candidates.
Federal Election Commission records list any donation over $200 to a political organization or candidate and are public by law.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the only Republican candidate to receive donations from Princeton employees so far, receiving a total of $1,800 from a graduate student and a Public Safety officer.
Princeton employees' overwhelmingly high support for Democratic candidates — 90 percent of donors who listed the University as their employer gave to a Democrat, and no professors donated to the GOP — outpaces its peers. The Harvard Crimson reported that 86 percent of Harvard professors' contributions went to Democrats, while according to Georgetown's student newspaper, The Hoya, 75 percent of the donations made by the school's employees went to Democratic candidates. |
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Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:25 pm |
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3 colleges???
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Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:49 pm |
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Well heres a few more.
U. Rhode Island Faculty, Staff Give At Least $86,790 To Dems
Dec 6, 2007
Since 2000, University of Rhode Island professors have donated at least $95,740 to political initiatives, mostly to Democratic causes, according to the Federal Election Commission's online database, a Cigar analysis has found.
Out of the $95,740 donated by URI employees since 2000, $8,950, or approximately 9.3 percent, was donated to Republican candidates, independent candidates or nonpartisan political action committees.
Of that $8,950, $3,900 were contributions to Lincoln Chafee's failed reelection campaign to the U.S. Senate. Although Chafee was a Republican at the time, after losing the election he left the Republican Party.
The remainder, $86,790, was given to Democratic candidates
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[David Bernstein, January 7, 2008 at 5:29am] Trackbacks
Some interesting (or at least fun) data on law professor campaign contributions:
So far, people listing their occupation as "law professor" have donated $18,365 to Republicans, and $149,542 to Democrats. Those who list their occupation as "professor of law" have donated $500 to Republicans, and $34,565 to Democrats
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the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey · 29 August 2005
Filed under: Press Coverage
By Adam Liptak--New York Times--08/28/05
Professors at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof. But whether the ideological imbalance matters - to the academic environment students encounter, to the kinds of lawyers the schools produce and to the stock of ideas the professors generate - depends on whom you ask.
The study, to be published this fall in The Georgetown Law Journal, analyzes 11 years of records reflecting federal campaign contributions by professors at the top 21 law schools as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. Almost a third of these law professors contribute to campaigns, but of them, the study finds, 81 percent who contributed $200 or more gave wholly or mostly to Democrats; 15 percent gave wholly or mostly to Republicans.
The percentages of professors contributing to Democrats were even more lopsided at some of the most prestigious schools: 91 percent at Harvard, 92 at Yale, 94 at Stanford.
...America splits evenly between the GOP and Democrats: America as a whole may split evenly, but 17 of the top 22 schools in the US News & World Report rankings are in states which voted Democrat in the 2000 presidential elections, 18 of 22 in 1996. There are 213 law schools listed at FindLaw in every state except Alaska, Nevada and Rhode Island, yet the top 22 law schools are located in just 14 of the remaining 47 states.
...74% of the professors contribute primarily: The problem is the word "primarily." Does this mean "at least 51% of the dollar value of their donations" are going to Democrats? Or does it mean "51% of the candidates they support" are Democrats? And, as a side point of interest, how many of the professors are contributing to both parties?
At Michigan... the differential is eight-to-one...: There are 71 professors listed at University of Michigan Law School, when clicking on the "Law Faculty" link. 25% percent of this total is approximately 18 professors who may have contributed more than $200 to federal political campaigns. An 8-to-1 ratio of "primarily" Democratic contributors to Republican contributors leaves us with 16 statistically probable Democratic donors. From this small sample, the survey's authors describe a "patent absence of diversity in viewpoints." |
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Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:12 pm |
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| My daughter is a junior at U of M-Flint and she swears she hasn't found another conservative on campus yet. |
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Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:08 pm |
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well, you guys can always send them to one of those
religious right colleges.....  |
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Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:45 pm |
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| Mine have already been thru the college routine. Like I told em disregard the ramblings of some leftist prof and stick to what you know to be fact. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:27 am |
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bill clinton sleeping!!!
this campaign must be getting to him!! |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:10 am |
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I wonder what hes dreaming about??? Perhaps, "Oh baby when I get back in the whitehouse ill be the official intern screener".  |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:30 pm |
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FlintConservative schreef:
My daughter is a junior at U of M-Flint and she swears she hasn't found another conservative on campus yet.
Tell her to join the college Republicans at UM-Flint. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:54 pm |
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| I think Kettering is very right leaning but I have been told it is a bad idea to wear any military stuff to UM Flint/Mott. I have also heard reports of liberal democrat professors with Karl Marx statues. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:11 pm |
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| Tell her that the conservative songbook is short and additions or variations are not often welcome. Learning something from a source outside of the mainstream media, AM radio or the Bible does not necessarily make it Leftist. It is simply something new to consider, to think about critically before concluding anything. Tell her broadening horizons only to the right (or left) is not an education at all. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:11 pm |
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You might want to consider getting her one of these to have handy.
Why should their be any left or right bias being spewed about in the classroom. Teach the course, the constitution as written, factual history and save the political bias for the next champagne and truffles get together.  |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:17 pm |
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What factual history. Heh, there's no such thing.
I'd quit worrying about what/how professors give their money, and start worrying about how corporate superstars and masters of the universe subvert the political process.
You could list 100 colleges in America with "liberal" staff and it still doesn't make it so. And, by the way, the contested piece of information was not that someone is liberal, it was the number of SELF-PROFESSED liberals. That was the claim made here, and I still don't believe it. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:31 pm |
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You could list 100 colleges in America with "liberal" staff and it still doesn't make it so.
 I personally couldnt care less how some prof decides to spend his or her money but it sure is a good indicator of their political leanings. Everytime anyone mentions that the majority of profs have a leftist view the defenders scream foul, not so, show us the proof. And when ya do it still dosent make it so.  |
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Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:57 pm |
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The onus is on YOU, the claimant, to prove your claim.
I would never presume to paint all of higher education with such a broad stroke, nor to presume that I know their political leanings.
Here's more to my point:
Wallets Open Up on Wall Street
Industry Employees
Are Largest Source
Of Candidates' Cash
By BRODY MULLINS
January 23, 2008; Page A17
Despite Wall Street's recent woes, people who work in the financial industry continue to dig deep for political donations to Republican and Democratic candidates for president.
Employees of Wall Street firms are the single largest source of campaign cash, accounting for a total of $50.4 million in financial contributions to the candidates so far this election cycle. That is more than any other industry sector, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign-finance data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
As candidates load up for advertising blitzes before "Super Tuesday" primaries on Feb. 5, candidates from both parties are again coming to New York seeking campaign donations. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, had a fund-raiser at the St. Regis Hotel last night that was hosted by Merrill Lynch & Co. Chief Executive John Thain, private-equity giant Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chairman John Whitehead.
Mr. McCain recently spent $1 million on advertising ahead of the Florida primary next Tuesday. Voters in more than 20 states, including California and New York, go to the polls Feb. 5.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton heads to her home state tomorrow for two fund-raisers. The Clinton campaign hopes to raise $15 million through these and other means to fund her campaign through Feb. 5.
Contributions from Wall Street have favored Republicans, who have collected 54% of donations from financial companies. Wall Street is the No. 1 source of donations to every major presidential candidate in both parties, except former North Carolina Democratic Sen. John Edwards, who is favored by the legal industry, according to the data.
Lawyers and lobbyists are the second-largest source of contributions to the candidates, with $34.8 million in donations. Together, the finance and legal industries are responsible for nearly a quarter of the $354 million donated to the presidential candidates as of Sept. 30. The next round of campaign-finance information, covering the three-month period ending Dec. 31, will be released at the end of the month.
Employees of financial firms, lawyers and lobbyists make up 46% of all large donations -- contributions of $200 or more -- to the presidential candidates. Each of the other industry sectors is responsible for just a fraction of the donations to the candidates.
According to the data, people who work in Hollywood, communications or electronics rank a distant third with $13.3 million in donations to the candidates. Other top sources of donations were employees of the health-care industry with $9.5 million, construction with $6.1 million and energy with $3.1 million. People who work in the defense industry gave $502,000, according to the data.
Not surprisingly, the two candidates from New York are winning the race for donations on Wall Street. Mrs. Clinton and former New York City Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani lead with $12.3 million and $10.6 million, respectively, in campaign donations from employees of Wall Street firms.
Employees of Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley rank as the top individual sources of donations to the presidential candidates, according to the data.
Goldman employees were the largest contributor to Mr. Obama, the second-largest giver to Mrs. Clinton and the fifth-largest to Mr. Edwards. Goldman employees donated $369,000 to Mr. Obama and $350,000 to Mrs. Clinton.
Other top Wall Street givers to Mr. Obama include employees of Lehman Brothers ($229,000), J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. ($217,000) and Citigroup Inc. ($181,000).
The top seven companies that have produced the most money for Mr. Giuliani are all financial firms, including Ernst & Young LLP, hedge fund Elliott Management and Credit Suisse Group.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney also has fared well on Wall Street. A founder of Bain Capital, Mr. Romney has scored with employees of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Employees of his former company have donated $112,000 to his campaign, according to the data.
Unlike Wall Street, lawyers heavily favor Democrats with their political donations. Lawyers have donated $9.6 million to Mrs. Clinton, $8.2 million to Mr. Edwards and $7.9 million to Mr. Obama.
Mr. Giuliani, a former prosecutor and partner with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, raised $3.2 million from others in his profession. That was more than any other Republican but less than half as much as the leading Democratic candidates.
Pennsylvania-based law firm Blank Rome LLP was the top source of donations to Mr. McCain, who collected $141,000 from employees of the firm. Mr. McCain fared well with employees of Greenberg Traurig LLP, a Miami firm that ranks as his third-largest contributor. As the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Mr. McCain took the lead in investigating convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was a lobbyist with Greenberg Traurig.
Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton led all others with donations from lobbyists. Mrs. Clinton collected $568,000 from lobbyists, while Mr. McCain has $340,000. |
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