Which occupations give more money to D’s and which give more to R’s? This graphic tells the story. Maybe the pairings are manipulated, but taking each occupation one by one, I don’t think there are too many that you would have guessed wrong.
Pointer from Charles Chu.
Somewhat surprised that Catholic Priests are not almost all Democrats.
Same here. Not even in the times of JP II.
I definitely would have guessed wrong on professional poker players, but then I don’t play poker.
Same here. In fact, my recent “exposure” to Annie Duke would suggest Libertarian; and with no use for pols other than their view banning or allowing online poker.
I think that’s basically the explanation. Sometimes giving from a particular professional is less representative of the views of party affiliations of the professionals, and more an indication of the party of the politicians who can be successfully lobbied to further the interests of the profession, as if they were in a union. And, in certain states or districts that are effectively one-party, it just doesn’t make any economic sense to try and lobby politicians from the other party. I’m guessing this has a lot to do with where professional poker players put their campaign contributions.
Entertaining + interesting, but it omits some large professions.
No tech workers, software developers, etc? No attorneys/lawyers? No professors?
One of my theories is if you care about GDP growth you tend to be GOP, while if you are indifferent to GDP growth you are a dem. There are also big regional differences. In many cases same the person in Dallas or Houston is part of GOP, but in LA is a dem. Also there are clear racial and age differences, as blacks are mostly all dems and most young voters are, while white and older voters tend to be GOP. Without overlay of age, race, region, the profession breakdown is less useful.
If you sort the jobs from most to least republican, it is almost a rank-ordering of the importance of the job to the functioning of our society, with a few prominent exceptions such as engineers and scientists leaning democratic.
I suspect that a lot of the divide is an artifact of location. For example, there are far more taxi drivers in large cities than in rural areas; the inverse is true for truck drivers, even though many of their goods wind up in cities. Likewise, chefs = cities, cattle feeders rural. Not the case across the board, but an influence.