Campus Reform
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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I’m surprised one dollar went to Romney.
Ditkaca on November 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Their livelihood depends on the continued govt. student loan subsidizing of higher and higher education costs.
Socmodfiscon on November 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM
In other words, keep priming the gub’mint teet you suckle from.
locomotivebreath1901 on November 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Yeah. Cornell has had several facebook posts effectively poking conservatives in the eye. It’s nice to know they don’t need my dollars anymore.
TexasDan on November 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM
That’s because the smarter you are, the more liberal you are. Don’t you Conservative dummies know that?
Living4Him5534 on November 28, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Corrupt socialists always get what’s coming to them sooner or later.
darwin on November 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM
That seems low. Better run the numbers again to make sure.
dczombie on November 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM
.
Would you be confusing ‘smarter’ with ‘indoctrinated’?
News2Use on November 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Man, I’d hate to be among that 4% after their peers read this.
Rocks on November 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Can we run some kind of campaign to slap all of their cars with bumper stickers that say “I was anti-establishment before I became the establishment”?
dczombie on November 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM
We clearly need the government to place limitations on this abuse of speech.
But see? This is “good” speech and not “bad” speech so it’s no problem.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Looks like some Ivy League types are getting fired.
Moesart on November 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Flange on November 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Meanwhile, in equally important matters, water is wet.
ButterflyDragon on November 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Academia not donating to party of flat earth? That’s a shocker!
lester on November 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM
You’re really stupid.
darwin on November 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Remember that our public institutions must reflect America.
Except y’know when they are overwhemingly liberal. In that case all that talk about diversity and reflecting American values and lifestyles and views is so much nonsense.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:21 AM
What do expect? He just got beaten half to death in the NYT/Citizens United thread. Some people get off on that sort of thing.
CurtZHP on November 28, 2012 at 11:22 AM
So go train astrophysicists, microbiologists, linguists, historians, Arabic experts, etc etc who share your values. Why on earth aren’t there more experts in any field of a conservative stripe?
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Who are the 4%? Where do they live? Can we get them all in one building at the same time, flood it with CS gas and then burn them alive?
Where are you Janet Reno in our hour of need?
/jk…ish
CorporatePiggy on November 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM
New “records” set by O’bamna in the 2012 election, according to CNN:
1. 82% of the high school dropout vote in PA
2. 80% of the high school dropout vote in CA
3. 73% of the high school dropout vote in NV
I’m sure you’re extremely proud of those results. I would be too!
Del Dolemonte on November 28, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Only 96%? Huh.
Shump on November 28, 2012 at 11:27 AM
What makes you think there are not?
Del Dolemonte on November 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM
There probably are. We don’t hear from them because they fear for their jobs and careers. It’s well known that advancement in academia is extremely difficult for anyone not bowing at the altar of socialism. Say the wrong thing and the witch hunt begins.
You people are everything you’ve ever accused conservatives of being and worse.
darwin on November 28, 2012 at 11:30 AM
I thought the government must actively promote diversity? Isn’t that the liberal view? Affirmative action, quotas, et cetera.
It’s not up to me to promote more diverse public institutions – government is supposed to do it.
Isn’t that the argument?
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Teacher interview when applying to Ivy league school;
Are you a liberal democrat?
Do you believe in sociolism?
Do you think Ronald reagan was satan?
Oh by the way, can you teach?
Danielvito on November 28, 2012 at 11:34 AM
I don’t care whether these universities have conservatives or liberals or anarchists. They can have whatever views they want.
If they allow those views to affect their teaching or public performance (hiring, promotion, et cetera), that’s another issue.
It’s the liberal view that these public institutions must reflect America. But for some reason they aren’t concerned about it here.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:41 AM
You do realize that the kids who go to the Ivy League make up the Wall Street investors conservatives revere….
libfreeordie on November 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM
If you really think that, shouldn’t you be clamoring for affirmative action for conservatives? It’s probably just that we don’t test well, not actual bias or anything.
TexasDan on November 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM
I am lucky that I live 30 minutes from one of the few Colleges in the country that takes $0 in government funds. They actually have conservative teachers. One of them just wrote a few books:
Paul Kengor
Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Wilmington, Del: ISI Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-935191-75-9
The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. Mercury Ink, 2012. ISBN 978-1451698091
I’ve decided not to pay to send my child to one of these 96%. I’ve spent years teaching her one thing only to pay to send her somewhere they will spend four years telling her what a liar I am.
Night Owl on November 28, 2012 at 11:45 AM
And you realize that the universities you revere produce the Wall Street investors you loathe?
We can argue it either way.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Don’t they teach that stuff in Bible schools?
Pablo Honey on November 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM
We are, but it takes time. We had to spend tons of time making room for women and racial minorities that were being actively denied entry. No one is actively barring a die hard conservative from attending college, getting a PhD in organic chemistry, and teaching at Cornell. There is absolutely nothing stopping any conservative from getting into these positions. Hell, if anything, to get a teaching job at a business school you need to be a right winger!
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM
They’re out in the workforce earning the money that you freeloaders mooch from.
John the Libertarian on November 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Except only you guys are finding a problem here.
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM
What school might that be?
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM
I don’t revere Wall Street investors. How odd you would think that. They comprise one small sector that makes this country work. I would more revere the guy who started the company that caused those Wall Street people to exist in the first place.
Night Owl on November 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Romney’s Harvard MBA/JD GPA: 3.97 Obama’s Harvard JD GPA: ? Must have been a 4.0 to garner more cash than Mitt.
BHO Jonestown on November 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Never mind, it’s Grove City College, where you can minor in biblical studies, you must take a course on science and religion (yet there are no courses on evolutionary biology), and you must attend chapel. You are endorsing the model of college as ideological institution, just the opposite of most schools.
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Sure, but we’re not demanding that government address it.
Look, it’s not a good sign that our institutions are becoming like cocoons. The left is over here and the right is over there and there’s no exchange of ideas.
The Republican Party is becoming the party of white people and the Democratic Party the party of people of color. That’s not good. Our universities are being dominated with one POV.
This sort of ideological balkinization is not good.
And I’ll repeat, Ernesto, I really don’t see liberals worried about this ideological imbalance in academia. You may be but you’re pretty much alone.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Fixed. You seem to forget that O’bamna and your Democrats own the Wall Street Investor Vote.
Del Dolemonte on November 28, 2012 at 12:05 PM
To some degree the imbalance is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter whether my Arabic professor is a liberal or conservative. It doesn’t matter whether person teaching computer information systems is a supply sider or a communist.
It matters in some areas, and in those areas there is already more diversity. Political science departments always have conservatives, even if it isn’t a 50/50 split. They teach courses offered on the federalist papers, while communists teach about Marx.
The area where I think conservatives are most underrepresented are those social sciences dealing with culture: Anthropology, social psychology, that sort of thing. That’s where you have whole departments where their ideological bent shows up in their work: the Anthropological insistence on cultural relativism, for one. That’s where it will take conservatives contributing to the research, staking a claim to the academic study of society, before you see a change.
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Fwiw even as a tenured professor it takes a certain amount of interest and balls to donate to a non-socialist. This is the age of opensecrets.org
It is an open secret that Conservative academics are not universally loved by their colleagues. Roger Scruton and Niall Ferguson come to mind. They’re not only conservative, they’re English.
CorporatePiggy on November 28, 2012 at 12:08 PM
David Horowitz has been debunking your quaint, naive notion for years.
F-
Del Dolemonte on November 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM
You seriously need to stop thinking conservative=religious. It’s just as easy for me to say all liberals are atheists.
You don’t come out and blatantly say it, but everyone (including you) knows what you mean.
Narcissism lends itself to people of power and achievement. Just so happens narcissists and codependents are the foundation of modern day liberalism.
So it’s no great surprise that people of power and achievement are liberals. It goes hand in hand with the disease of liberalism.
ButterflyDragon on November 28, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Another naive, false notion. My brother, who was a Poli Sci major at a major (state) University, had not a single conservative teaching in his department. Not one.
Del Dolemonte on November 28, 2012 at 12:17 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
But I was in the exact same situation only a few years ago, and I had at least 3 conservatives who taught me in particular, let alone the whole department. I had a die hard conservative teach my courses on the American Presidency, the Federalist Papers, and even NYC politics.
ernesto on November 28, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Don’t you think there is considerable self-selection going on here? Conservatives, as a whole, have little interest in academia and no respect for academics. On this site, for example, academics are generally considered part of the moocher/taker class and castigated for not having a “real job.” Moreover, to the extent that religious conservatives deny the existence of generally accepted scientific principles like evolution, they disqualify themselves from teaching science at anything other than a Bible college.
cam2 on November 28, 2012 at 12:20 PM
HA HA LOL! Yes, it’s far superior to minor in underwater African Post Apartheid basket weaving, isn’t it? As far as ideological institutions, you really don’t see the irony and hypocrisy in that, do you? You are bubble wrapped in your socialist enclave to the point where you can not even acknowledge that there might be a viable alternative to what you offer, by demeaning it.
Don’t you think it would be a great source of much needed revenue for this country, when there are poor people who can’t afford to go to your schools, to start taxing the wealth of all those billions of dollars in filthy profits that those schools hold onto? And those professors should not earn more than what the person taking the class could be expected to earn in the private workforce. You know, it’s not fair that they get rich peddling useless degrees to unsuspecting children and clueless parents.
Night Owl on November 28, 2012 at 12:23 PM
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