This article refuses to plainly state two very obvious things that would put its provocative headline in context: 1) the Bush administration has been a miserable failure on a scale such that the scope of our national disaster is almost too frightening to contemplate and 2) professors engage critical thinking, analysis, research, contemplation, rigorous debate, peer review, and the scientific method to separate the facts from the Faux Nooze hyena pack echo chamber swiftboating.
Faced with a party of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Alito, Gonzalez, Rice, Bremmer, Feith, and the grandmaster buffoon of all time, not to mention "go f*ck yourself" and "known unknowns" and "Stuff happens" and "mission accomplished" and "quaint" Geneva Conventions and rescinded habeas corpus and moral relativism on torture, among many other tragic and infuriating injustices, is it any wonder the learned among us vote Democratic? Just venturing a guess here.
Also, who OK'd the punctuation in that headline?
Ivy League Faculty Giving Democratic, More Heavily Than Ever.
Professors and administrators at the nation's top colleges are supporting Democratic candidates for president at a rate higher than the historic averages.
More than 86 percent of those who teach or work directly for an Ivy League university have donated to a Democrat so far during the 2008 campaign, according to an analysis of campaign finance reports. That percentage -- which does not include those who work in affiliated hospitals -- is more than 10 points higher than the education industry as a whole.
Of the roughly $470,000 donated by these Ivy League higher ups, approximately $205,000 has been given to Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, and $147,000 to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. The top Republican recipient was former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who received approximately $33,000 in Ivy League largesse.
"I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that professors are more liberal than most," Massie Ristch, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics, told the Huffington Post. "This industry is as Democratic as the oil industry is Republican and I don't think the split in either end would surprise anyone. With professors, however, we assume that these are more ideologically driven than economic."
No, Massie Ristch, it's not a surprise to anyone because it is one of the oldest class-baiting tropes in the Repugnican bag of smelly tricks. Thanks for playing along.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the education industry has become increasingly Democratic over the past twenty years. Whereas in 1990, 57 percent of the industry's donations - including Political Action Committee dollars - went to Democratic candidates, by 2006 that number had increased to 71 percent. The amount of money in play is also on the rise. In 1996 the total amount of contributions from academia was more than $8.8 million. By 2000, that had doubled and in 2004 it doubled again to more than $36 million.
Gosh, I wonder what's happened in the last twenty years to spur those in the education industry to "become increasingly Democratic." Who can tell in this reportage vacuum? Could it be that for 12 of those 20 years we've suffered through disastrous Repugnican/Bush family policy? Hmm. Feh.
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