September 7, 2007

Campus Donors to Presidential Candidates Favor Democrats

By SARA HEBEL

College administrators, faculty members, and other higher-education employees have donated more money to Democratic candidates for president than to Republicans, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington.

Of the more than $7-million that people in higher education have given to federal candidates and national political parties and committees for the 2008 elections, 76 percent has gone to Democrats, the center

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