Posted on 01/21/2019 10:14:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Crowdpac, a nonpartisan firm dedicated to political data analysis, used federal campaign-contribution records dating to 1980 to estimate where various officials and donors fall on the political spectrum.
It scored individual donors as being more liberal or conservative based on which candidates they gave to.
Crowdpac CEO and cofounder Steve Hilton told Business Insider this donation data "is the heart of the Crowdpac data model" because its "research shows that campaign contributions are the best predictor of how a candidate will behave in office."
Hilton explained that Crowdpac's main goal is to provide people "good objective, nonpartisan information about the candidates on their ballot in a simple form that they can understand."
The company believes this will help "boost the number of small donors and reduce the influence of big money in politics."
As part of its analysis, Crowdpac is able to break down where various professions fall on the political spectrum. It provided that data to Business Insider.
Here's a summary of its findings:
That basic summary shows the average ideology scores for each profession. But the "purple" professions that appear in the middle of the spectrum aren't really bipartisan. They're actually extremely polarized: Rather than having a large number of donors with middle of the road politics, they're largely split, with a big liberal group on one side and a similarly sized large conservative group on the other.
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Gee, I’m shocked.............................................................................................................................................not.................
Good charts, but it’s from 2014
RE: Good charts, but it’s from 2014
You mean things have changes since 5 years ago?
Has Academia or Hollywood been less liberal since 2014?
Basically, people who have to ACTUALLY WORK AND EARN THEIR MONEY trend conservative; people who play pretend and SUCK THEIR MONEY from others trend liberal. Big surprise!
Building and Construction => Donald Trump
I remember back in 2015 a FReeper said that builders tend to be more Conservative.
I expect engineering would follow mining for the most part.
What it tells me is professions where one has to interact with the real world to succeed (mining, construction, agriculture) only work if you know how to deal with cause and effect in a logical manner.
You screw up mining and you likely die. You screw up a news article and you get a Pulitzer.
PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ‘WORK FOR A LIVING’ TEND TO BE CONSERVATIVES...........................
As expected all public facing/influencing entities are dominated by liberals. As a result traditional values are constantly eroded. What was unthinkable 20 years ago are considered main stream values now. Relentless and corrosive
it grinds and grinds until nothing will be left.
I was thinking engineering would be way over to the right, surpassing mining. Until recently engineering has always been reality-based (leftist acadamecians trying to ‘fix’ this as hard as they can), so liberalism would be completely incompatible with the required mindset (though I have met a few paradox cases).
RE: What it tells me is professions where one has to interact with the real world to succeed (mining, construction, agriculture) only work if you know how to deal with cause and effect in a logical manner.
What about Real Estate? That’s Trump’s industry.
Builders and the lumber industry in general are predominately conservative. Many salt of the earth types.
Maybe for chem and mechanical. The tech guys trend toward flaming liberals.
My grandfather told us kids if we watch too much TV it will rot your mind. So true.
Basically in careers and jobs that require tanglible quantifiable results, that solve real problems with solutions that have actual answers and are absolutes, the more conservative they trend.
CS types like Suckberg and the Google batch certainly are liberal.
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