According to our research, 68 percent of lawyers who’ve made any political contributions give more money to Democrats than to Republicans. That pattern is even more striking when you look at elite lawyers. Mueller’s legal team is the cream of the crop in terms of their professional and educational experience.
But the partisanship of physicians is not evenly distributed throughout the fields of medical practice. Data from a sample of 34,532 physicians in 29 states. Source: Analysis of the National Provider Identifier File, and Catalist LLC voter file data, by Eitan Hersh and Matthew Goldenberg.
I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits. 3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest to the government for redistribution.
Primary care doctors and obstetrician-gynecologists, the doctors most likely to consider such issues, were among the most evenly split in the study sample. That means that patients probably can’t guess the political leanings of their doctor without asking (or checking the voter file data).
While the overwhelming majority of Democratic nominations (78 percent) went to attorneys, the GOP chose lawyers only three times—Bob Dole in 1996 and Dan Quayle for two vice presidential nods in ’88 and ‘92—for 18 spots on their national ticket. While Mitt Romney did earn a Harvard Law degree in 1975 ...
Through nine consecutive presidential elections, this means that only one Democratic nominee for president or vice president—peanut farmer and Navy officer Jimmy Carter —never attended law school, nor enjoyed deep familial connections to the legal profession. Those familial connections have also extended to spouses of the Democratic nominees.
On a similar note, the Democrats in Charlotte repeatedly cited the Lilly Ledbetter Act as a monumental achievement of the Obama administration in finally guaranteeing that the women of America would at long last receive equal pay for equal work.
While Mitt Romney did earn a Harvard Law degree in 1975 (as part of an elite joint program when he simultaneously earned his MBA), and even passed the bar in Michigan, he never practiced law before beginning his business career with the Boston Consulting Group shortly after graduation.
Democrats fancy themselves protectors of the downtrodden, but they mostly advance the interests of the legal profession, writes Michael Medved.
But Democrats can hardly take comfort in the fact that the American people hold lobbyists and Congress in even lower esteem than lawyers, especially since most lobbyists and a disproportionate number of legislators worked first as attorneys.
The answer is intuitive: Education tends to increase one's exposure to different viewpoints and kinds of people, fostering tolerance – a key basis for social liberalism.
Likewise, college graduates are far more likely to support abortion rights than those with only a high school degree.
At the end, most students have a strong feeling of where they want to gravitate.”. Dr. Ackermann , who trained as an internist, helped conduct a survey of physicians on the idea of a single-payer health care system, a liberal policy goal, in 2008.
Surgeons are Red, Psychiatrists are Blue. The new research is the first to directly measure the political leanings of a large sample of all doctors. Earlier research — using surveys of physicians and medical students, and looking at doctors’ campaign contributions — has reached somewhat similar conclusions.
Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Maya Sen discusses her research into the political leanings of lawyers and argues that it is perfectly normal for attorneys hired by special counsel Robert Mueller to have donated to Democrats. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer.
Through a lot of American history, certainly through very important political moments like the New Deal era, the bar was a conservative voice in American politics. Through the 1930s and the 1940s, the bar was opposed to a lot of progressive policies, a lot of redistributive policies, and also was opposed to increased regulation ...