Mcginnis, J

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<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/09/law-prof-presid.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 125, 187); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-out;">This data</a>--contributions to political candidates during the 2008 Presidential election by law faculty--is hardly decisive, but it certainly fits with what I know about the faculties in question.  100% of donations by law faculty at Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Berkeley, and Penn went to Democrats, 0% to Republicans.  (Penn is the main surprise here, since a quarter-to-a-third of the tenured faculty there are, last time I looked, Republicans.  But I guess eight years of Republican wreckage is too much even for them.) 

By contrast, 64.7% of donations by Northwestern law faculty went to Republicans, a mere 35.3% to Democrats. 

Since elite law faculty are typically both more educated and more cosmopolitan than the average voter, these results are hardly surprising given the current condition of the Republican Party.   Even the Northwestern result is mainly an artifact of maximum donations by just two faculty, both well-known and hardcore conservative activists:  Steven Calabresi and John McGinnis.</p>

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