Jobs and political party donations
Mother Jones's Michael Mechanic created a chart that associates presidential campaign donations with the donors' stated occupation, from science teacher to professional golfer to baker to candle manufacturer. The data comes from FundRace.org.
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Yah, when I first saw Fundrace I ran some searches, pretty interesting. "Stripper" = one Republican.
I guess in the Huffington Post's world, everyone is either a Democrat or a Republican.
I was hoping to use this political/occupation data to test my hypothesis that software engineers are more likely to be Libertarians than the general population.
I have to say, I'm surprised at how conservative rocket scientists seem to be. After all, gravity is only a theory.
IME, software engineers are more likely to espouse libertarian ideas, but are much less likely to vote, be politically involved, or donate money to a candidate.
Paulites Gone Wild gives me a chuckle.
Once you learn that the more education people have, the more likely they are to vote Democratic vs. Republican and be liberal vs conservative, it makes sense out of all these other demographic categories.
The smarter you are, the more likely you are to be liberal and vote Democratic.
Next case...
#6: So rocket scientists aren't smart?
Damn, FundRace is fun!
It's like Googling your name, only 20 times better. I can search for friends and family! Hmmm... I just discovered my uncle gave $250 to Mitt Romney...
I can't find me. I guess I haven't given over $200 yet...
For the record, I'm a software engineer in a company full of software engineers, and as far as I can tell everyone is politically interested and is supporting Obama. Ron Paul is considered a joke. Of course we're in liberal North East, but I think that software engineers can understand nutty ideas when they hear them...
That said, the internet as a whole does seem to have a slightly more Libertarian slant than the general populace. The fact that the internet as a whole is mostly made up of 15-year-olds is probably not a coincidence.
Coldspell, the data is all there if your write a little program to pull all the Ron Paul donations. I guess they figured someone pulling about 3% of votes doesn't get his own tab.
I was thinking that the more likely you are to work a job where you listen to talk radio all day, the more likely you are to donate republican.
It probably isn't my place to question the moderators, but why would a post that says (if I can read it and remember):
get disemvoweled?
The first part of the sentence states that political leanings are not caused by (lack of) intelligence, which seems perfectly reasonable and respectable.
The second suggests that colleges have political leanings, which one may disagree but does not merit disemvoweling.
The third says that people follow the political leanings of their colleges, which you may certainly disagree with but again does not merit disemvoweling (the word "sheep" is hardly the worst insult heard on BB).
Put that in contrast to the post it was quoting, which was not disemvoweled:
which says essentially that dumb people become Republicans, which is much ruder in my opinion.I don't see why the first quoted post is much worse than the second, and in fact seems to be much less rude. Was disemvoweling a knee-jerk reaction to right-wing posts? What policy was the first quote violating that the second one wasn't?
I find that more than a little ugly, and not a lot different than censorship. Plus some moderators add a post explaining the disenvoweling when it's not obvious. This moderator didn't.
For the record, I'd normally be more likely to defend the second quote than the first, given my already stated political affiliation above, but I still think that the moderation seems arbitrary and possibly a little ugly.
...maybe I didn't understand the situation..?
We're currently not accepting ovine references to humans. It's degrading, it's tired/tedious/boring/overdone/dead & zombified and it's a cheap excuse for an actual argument. There is an underlying standard that comments should be informative, funny or well reasoned. Sheeple jokes don't make the cut.
Hmmm, Ratzo, are you simply looking to start a flame war?
We don't have flame wars. Heated discussions, yes. Flame wars, no.