Guess which political party gets nearly all of college professors’ donations?

We won’t leave you in suspense: It’s the Democratic Party. What’s amazing is just how overwhelming the difference between contributions to Democrats and contributions to Republicans really is.

When the Federal Election Commission released its reports for the third quarter of 2015, Campus Reform (CR) — as it has done in the past — perused the information to see if it could confirm a suspected trend.

Sure enough, there it was: Among the top 50 U.S. liberal arts colleges (as determined by the U.S. News and World report ratings guide), a staggering 99.51 percent of all professors with a reported presidential campaign contribution gave their money to the Democratic candidate. That leaves .49 percent — in this case, a single person — who gave money to a Republican candidate.

From Campus Reform:

According to FEC third quarter reports released October 16, 47 professors at the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the country, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, have given to presidential campaigns. Of those 47 professors, Hamilton College History Professor Robert Paquette was the sole donor to a Republican candidate, giving $150 to Carly Fiorina’s campaign.

The remaining 99.51 percent went to Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The 46 other professors collectively donated $20,875 to Hillary Clinton and $8,417 to Bernie Sanders. Professors donating to Clinton have given an average of $1,043.75. Those giving to Sanders donated an average of $323.73.

CR got in touch with Paquette, the sole GOP donor, and asked him if he felt that he was as outnumbered by his peers on the left as the FEC’s numbers made it appear.

“I do believe these numbers give an accurate representation of the political leanings of faculty on most college campuses,” he wrote back, admitting that he is the “only out-of-closet conservative in a faculty of 200” at Hamilton College.

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