What campaign contributions tell us about the partisanship of government employees
LBN thread: Trump tells Dems that he’ll hold their voters hostage until he gets his wall: ‘Most of the people not getting paid are Democrats’
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Source: Washington Post
What campaign contributions tell us about the partisanship of government employees
By Philip Bump
December 27 at 12:05 PM
Of the various epithets deployed by Donald Trump over the course of his life, few have been offered with as much frequency or disdain as “Democrat.”
But on Thursday morning, President Trump labeled people as Democrats for another reason: to concern-troll his political opponents.
“Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border,” he wrote, again linking the ongoing partial government shutdown to his demand for a wall on the border with Mexico that, he incorrectly claimed, would curtail an inflow of drugs and criminals.
He continued, “Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?”
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In 2010, Gallup found that about 40 percent of unionized federal employees identified as Democrats, compared with 27 percent who identified as Republicans. Of those who were not members of a union, 33 percent were Republicans, and 29 percent were Democrats. (A plurality of this latter group identified as independent.) In part, this is probably a function of job type: Unionized government employees are less likely to hold higher-paying management positions. But it suggests a near-parity in partisan representation.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/27/is-trumps-dismissal-unpaid-government-employees-democrats-accurate/
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