How do certain sports fans vote?

[Badger]

Football: a little bit of an rural edge to it but still tons of fans in the cities
GOP - 53%
DEM - 45%

Baseball: baseball is always most popular in the city
DEM - 60%
GOP - 39%

Basketball: demographic shift
DEM - 80%
GOP - 20%

Hockey: dominated by Northern cities
DEM - 75%
GOP - 25%

Golf: lots of people play golf, GOP edge
DEM - 45%
GOP - 55%

EDIT: you know what, were talking about SPORTS fans here.  NASCAR is not a sport. 

Hockey fans (of which I'm one--GO PENS!!), like the players, are overwhelmingly white compared to other sports. Plus the game expanded heavily outside the rust belt over a decade ago. Any Democratic lean is heavily overstated here.

[Badger]

One thing most of you haven't taken into account is that sports fans tend to be male - who tend to be more Republican than the general population.  Outside of basketball fans (who skew more African American than other sports fans), I think a majority of sports fans are probably Republican, less so for rich man sports like tennis and golf than for blue collar sports like NASCAR, football and hockey.

True sports nuts - those who go to games - are probably more white, male and Republican than casual sports fans.

T

True dat. Also with the steep cost of most sports tickets today, I'd say at least middle class, wealthier the more frequent one attends.

[Badger]

Did you guys see the Baseball All-star game? It seemed like a large part of the crowd was booing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXuigXfhwC0

That's not because of who he is. It's because of the city which he is "reppin"

For those who aren't as baseball savy as myself (GO SAWX!), Chicago and St. Louis are big rivals. Now I know it's Cubs vs. Cardinals, and not White Sox (Obama's team) vs. Cardinals but the point is that the two cities are rivals.

Also consider this: the all-star game is not the average ball game. The tickets are VERY expensive, and that means that you have a lot of rich white folks who do not very much enjoy President Obama's economic policies. Also, the crowd was probably 60-70% cheering, only that those who were booing likely were a lot louder. Also it's in Missouri, so there's that.

Politicians appearing at sporting events are routinely booed far harder than they're cheered.

Not the most typical example, but one of my favorites: ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNetpeu_mk

By that general standard, and despite all the factors hcallega correctly noted above, I thought the crowd was actually fairly receptive (though obviously not universally so).