Most academics and journalists are Democrats, but “most of them would fall into the 17.5%” doesn’t follow. I’m not particularly interested enough in this tangent to dive in the FEC data myself, but per the articles Claude found about it, academics and journalists disproportionately did not donate to Sanders among the presidential primary candidates.
Most academics and journalists are Democrats, but “most of them would fall into the 17.5%” doesn’t follow. I’m not particularly interested enough in this tangent to dive in the FEC data myself, but per the articles Claude found about it, academics and journalists disproportionately did not donate to Sanders among the presidential primary candidates.
Most people don’t donate to anyone, so this is not informative. We know that there is a heavy imbalance between left/right faculty in academia. For example, [29% of Harvard faculty say they are “very liberal”, while only 1% say they are “very conservative”](https://www.foxnews.com/media/fewer-harvard-faculty-members-identifying-liberal-although-staff-still-strongly-left-leaning-survey). [Many departments employ zero registered Republicans or show heavy imbalance in registered Democrat/Republican ratio.](https://www.ff.org/nearly-four-in-five-college-departments-dont-employ-a-single-conservative/) [Journalists also heavily lean left.](https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/study-finds-that-just-3-4-of-american-journalists-are-republicans/)
Notably, 29 is a lower number than 35.