The winner of yesterday’s Democratic caucuses in Iowa was already a favorite of academe.
Barack Obama has received about one-third of the total donations that college administrators, faculty members, and other educators have made to presidential candidates.
The Illinois senator got slightly more than $2.1-million from those individuals, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based nonpartisan research group. That is nearly 30 percent more than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, of New York, received. She ranked second, with about $1.6-million.
Mitt Romney, the top Republican on the list, received $564,000 from academe.
Mr. Obama, 46, is often described as professorial in style, apt to delve into the complexities of topics and more adept at lengthy policy discussions than sound bites. In fact, he has worked in college classrooms, having served as a senior lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
