Deducing people’s politics given their occupations may not be as easy as you think. Maybe it follows that most professors would be by-the-book Democrats. But what about those kids dishing coffee? CEOs?
And those crafty accountants, always playing the numbers? Based on recent fundraising tallies from the presidential campaign, it can be tricky to judge a person’s vote by his vocation.
Bakers allotted more dough ($10,971) to Republicans than to Democrats ($7,057).
Grinding down the slacker stereotype, baristas favored the Grand Old Party by $6,813 to $5,914.
With $4,911,909 to $3,252,890, doctors/physicians figure Democrats have a better cure for what ails America.
Teachers want no Republican left behind in the Oval Office. They more than doubled donations for the Dems, giving them $1,595,037 and $641,013 to Republicans.
Republicans hammered the Dems among carpenters, $73,724 to $50,141.
Homemakers — nah, we’re not touching this one — gave $15,695,319 to Republicans and a bit less, $14,449,215, to Democrats.
Cowboys rode both sides of the fence almost equally, $500 for Republicans and $600 for Dems.
Hoping to make a Republican reappear in the White House, someone identifying himself as a wizard bestowed $1,500 on the GOP.
And finally, more ammunition for those who accuse the media of being liberal: Journalists/reporters gave $142,276 to Dems but only $13,350 to Republicans.
Graphic (color): IN OTHER RESULTS %% TO REPUBLICANS OCCUPATION TO DEMOCRATS $11,149,636 Lawyer/Attorney $40,012,872 %% %% $1,893,917 CEO $5,099,738 $408,248 Professor $2,549,702 $726,105 Accountant $817,062 $35,108 Actor $420,097 $45,208 Librarian $546,010 $108,719 Unemployed $78,466 $89,884 Truck Driver $33,576 $18,735 Rabbi $86,724 $35,351 Priest $57,222 $55,781 Mechanic $21,102 $30,745 Graduate Student $23,627 $14,770 Novelist $30,779 $5, 130 Waiter $14,374 $5,350 Blacksmith $0 $1,100 Postal Worker $3,905 $725 Blogger $350 %% Source: Federal Election Commission figures through the first quarter of 2008 via FundRace at Huffington Post
Data compiled by Robert P. Baird, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and co-editor of Chicago Review.
Tribune graphic by Mike Miner.
