Occupations and voting

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Just because the far left has discovered a hatred for law enforcement doesn't mean that's a GOP voting bloc.  Cops are government employees who don't make a whole lot, and I'd bet they vote Dem, especially in big cities.  They CERTAINLY vote to the left of business types.

Umm did you see the reaction to De Blasio from the NYPD? White cops at least tend to be very racist in general and have a conservative attitude towards society in general believing themselves to be serving the "upstanding citizens of the community." I think are most likely overwhelmingly Republican.  

[Thunderbird is the word]

Just because the far left has discovered a hatred for law enforcement doesn't mean that's a GOP voting bloc.  Cops are government employees who don't make a whole lot, and I'd bet they vote Dem, especially in big cities.  They CERTAINLY vote to the left of business types.

Umm did you see the reaction to De Blasio from the NYPD? White cops at least tend to be very racist in general and have a conservative attitude towards society in general believing themselves to be serving the "upstanding citizens of the community." I think are most likely overwhelmingly Republican.  

Considering the NYPD is minority-majority police force, I'm curious on how they vote.

I'd say the white cops are overwhelmingly Republican though might also vote Democrat at the state level for candidates that the union endorses. Black cops are probably more Democratic leaning and Hispanic officers probably somewhere in between though they probably have a slightly R tilt also since they're probably attracted to the force by the same things that white officers are.

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I forget who wrote it (Irving Kristol maybe?), but it has been suggested that voting habits are better predicted by connection with/reliance on the state than just income. The data that Intell provided seems to suggest.

I'd quibble with that. Maybe government employees are more likely to lean that way but I imagine that the FBI, police force and career military types tend to lean much more conservative than say freelance writers and graphic designers.