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I haven't thoroughly investigated this study or its methodology, but it doesn't seem very hard to believe: https://econjwatch.org/articles/faculty-voter-regist

I haven't thoroughly investigated this study or its methodology, but it doesn't seem very hard to believe: https://econjwatch.org/articles/faculty-voter-registration-in-economics-history-journalism-communications-law-and-psychology https://econjwatch.org/articles/faculty-voter-registration-i... >We looked up 7,243 professors and found 3,623 to be registered Democratic and 314 Republican, for an overall D:R ratio of 11.5:1.

commandlinefan 6y ago
That kind of makes sense though - university jobs rely on government funding and it's usually the Republicans who (at least claim to) try to reduce government spending.
- setr 6y ago
  https://news.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-union-state-workers.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-uni... Across federal employees, that doesn’t seem to matter much. I also wouldn’t expect republicans to care so much that they’d put monetary source before job type/location — it’d be quite difficult to be a republican teacher and find a job that’s not significantly government-funded