On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:15:16 +0000 (UTC), "K-Ric"
wrote:

Why scientists are seldom Republicans

By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without
scientists?

Ask the Republican Party.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...1115918AARAPW0

What fraction of US engineers vote Democrat/Republican?
I'm most interested in engineers, but statistics for a variety of
professions would also be nice.

By engineers, I mean mechanical/chemical/electrical/etc, not the people
who operate trains.


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I can't tell you for sure as I don't think anyone's ever studied it (at
least I couldn't find anything), but with my experience in grad school,
industry, and now a researcher at a national lab surrounded by PhD level
engineers...there is no real trend that I've noticed. The engineers at
my current job lean heavily republican, but I'm in a very conservative
part of the state. When I worked on the East coast the majority of them
were democrats. I had an advisor in grad school that was an out and out
socialist, but since I'm a Libertarian I think I helped balance him out.
The rest of the department was split pretty evenly. Overall I think most
engineers have a slight conservative leaning. They worked hard to become
engineers, make a good salary, and want to keep what they've earned.
Consequently they value the conservative principles of self sufficiency,
hard work, and less government influence in their lives. At the same
time they realize that things can and will go wrong, and as such are
somewhat tolerant of certain liberal welfare policies. Engineers are
trained to value efficiency, and if a policy works they're willing to
support it. On the other hand if it's wasteful and inefficient they'll
try to replace it with something better. The only thing I've really
noticed is that more engineers tend to be Libertarian then other
professions. Maybe it's the individualism, maybe it's the self
confidence that engineers seem to possess in spades. But overall I think
you'll find a pretty even balance based on what each individual engineer
believes to be the best solution. That's just my own observation
however, and I'm far from a trained sociologist.
Source(s):
MS Chemical Engineering
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