Not shocking: Gator faculty heavily leftist

It's nearly a case of no-news here, but worth pointing out anyway.

A study being conducted of the nation's top universities found that the University of Florida faculty and staff gave 83% of their political contributions to Democrat candidates during the 2008 election.

CampusReform.org recently completed an in-depth profile of the political climate at UF as part of an ongoing research project looking at the nation's top 100 universities. The data comes from campaign finance data from The Huffington Post, a left leaning Web site.

CampusReform.org's Web site states: “That puts UF faculty and staff out of step with Florida residents. In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama won the state by two percentage points. His vote total was 50.9% to John McCain's 48.4%. That suggests the monolithically liberal politics of UF are far different from the rest of the state.”

Coffee Talk suspects that similar results would be found at Florida State University, the University of South Florida, the University of Miami, Central Florida University, Florida Gulf Coast University and so on.

University campuses dramatically out of step with the nation as a whole is a problem. Perhaps the first step is to scientifically identify what common sense has told us for decades.