Comments on: “Lawyers as Presidential Candidates” http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/lawyers-as-presidential-candidates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lawyers-as-presidential-candidates Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 13:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Richard Belzer http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/lawyers-as-presidential-candidates/comment-page-1/#comment-10707 Richard Belzer Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:01:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5859#comment-10707 Open Secrets reports that "lawyers and law firms" have so far donated $82 million in the 2008 election cycle, 77% to Democrats. The lowest percentage since 1990 is 69%. If these ratios are representative of the legal profession, then lawyers would be inclined to *be* Democrats. In any case, these data show that lawyers are inclined to *favor* Democrats. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=K01" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=K01</a> Open Secrets reports that “lawyers and law firms” have so far donated $82 million in the 2008 election cycle, 77% to Democrats. The lowest percentage since 1990 is 69%.

If these ratios are representative of the legal profession, then lawyers would be inclined to *be* Democrats. In any case, these data show that lawyers are inclined to *favor* Democrats.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=K01

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