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96% of political donations from Ivy League faculty & staff went for Obama

96% of donations from faculty and staff at Ivy League colleges, in the 2012 presidential race, went for President Obama, reveals a Campus Reform investigation compiled using numbers released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

From the eight elite schools, $1,211,267 was contributed to the Obama campaign, compared to the $114,166 given to Romney.

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Night Owl on November 28, 2012 at 12:23 PM

If you’re looking for me to argue against taxing private universities on their outsized endowments, you’re mistaken.

ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM

Don’t you think there is considerable self-selection going on here?
cam2 on November 28, 2012 at 12:20 PM

self selection is fought against by all liberals who want to see womens median income higher than men.

Mormontheman on November 28, 2012 at 12:27 PM

self selection is fought against by all liberals who want to see womens median income higher than men.

Mormontheman on November 28, 2012 at 12:27 PM

Not sure what you’re trying to say. Liberals are fighting against convervative self-exclusion from academia because liberals think this will increase women’s median income? Huh?

cam2 on November 28, 2012 at 12:42 PM

I’m surprised one dollar went to Romney.

Ditkaca on November 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM

I’m proud to say that a close relative is an Ivy League professor who contributed to Romney. For whatever good that did….

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 28, 2012 at 12:44 PM

Incestuous echo chambers are incestuous?

You don’t say!

tom daschle concerned on November 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM

So his anecdote counts as a debunking? And how does his example illustrate how a conservative organic chemist is prevented from entering academia?

ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 12:19 PM

Many, many years ago Ernest I went to an Ivy League school for my BA.

The course was traditional (all exams) and liberal arts.

ALL papers were double graded. They knew they had an inbuilt bias, hence picking two graders per paper in an effort to avoid the accusation.

We had straight up commies on staff, and some who were not. Things are probably far worse now.

CorporatePiggy on November 28, 2012 at 4:29 PM

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