http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/07/28/sports-political-donations/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/07/28/sports-political-donations/#comment-12463 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:56:14 +0000 #comment-12463 Bryan Caplan says that increases in wealth have little effect on political orientation. If politics are mostly about social issues (which apparently used to be the norm and may be again) he might have a point. 
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/05/how_does_winnin.html 
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/04/a_little_eviden.html#000841

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/07/28/sports-political-donations/#comment-12464 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:58:54 +0000 #comment-12464 wealthiest players 
 
as kris rock said: players are rich, owners are wealthy :)

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/07/28/sports-political-donations/#comment-12465 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:38:36 +0000 #comment-12465 If you look at the amounts it’s interesting to see how much more the owners, commissioners and so on donate than even the wealthiest players. Of course this is partly because those guys have even more money than even the wealthiest players, but I think it also speaks to their need to buy influence.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2006/07/28/sports-political-donations/#comment-12466 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:23:43 +0000 #comment-12466 “Sports” skew Republican in the way that “Celebrities” skew Democratic. The “Media” category appears to have been picked non-randomly for balance. In states where voter registration is a matter of public record, journalists skew Democratic.

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