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Indy Texas
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« on: May 14, 2013, 11:33:03 PM »

Coal mining: Romney
Oil and Gas: Romney
Broadcast media (TV/Radio): Obama
Journalist Publications (Blogs, Newspapers): Obama
Higher education: Obama
Medical (Doctors, Nurses): Nurses probably went for Obama; doctors probably lean Romney
Military: lean Romney, but not as heavily Republican as they once were
Logging: Romney (just about anything involving natural resource extraction goes to Romney)
Commercial airlines: Obama; very unionized industry that has often relied on government assistance; even management/executives might lean towards Obama compared to executives in other industries
Religious clergy: depends on the religion and the denomination
Film: Obama
Professional sporting: coaches and owners for Romney; as for the players, NBA strongly Obama, NFL strongly Obama, MLB probably a toss-up, NHL probably a toss-up (too many white guys)
Construction: the workers themselves voted for Obama; the contractors and subcontractors are a tossup (the white ones went for Romney; the nonwhite ones didn't)
IT/Tech: software engineers for Obama (the Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc folks); service and support and sales likely for Romney
Tourism: Obama
Fishing: Romney
Law: Obama
Law Enforcement (Police, detectives): Obama
EMTs: mostly white males with "some college", therefore Romney
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 09:21:52 PM »

IT/Tech: software engineers for Obama (the Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc folks); service and support and sales likely for Romney

Just about any lower end of middle class income service occupation that probably has people a bit more educated (even if college dropouts or "taking a break") and younger than normal is going to be for Obama. My workplace was somewhere around 80-90% for Obama and broke into impromptu applause once the passage of the gay marriage bill in the State Senate was announced. Tongue Also call centers tend to employ a lot of minorities.

Hewlett Packard has a lot of its sales, marketing and distribution departments headquartered in Houston (along with the remnants of Compaq that was there when they got bought out). I know many people who work in the "business side" of HP as a result. Making comparisons vertically in an organization isn't always helpful because of the income effect. Of course Obama will do better in the call center than in the C-suite. But if you compare the software engineers who make an upper-middle class income to the sales and marketing people who also make an upper-middle class income, the software engineers will have more Obama voters than the marketing and sales people.
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