David Adesnik is on some sort of inane comment spree.
He writes about political leanings among the Ivy League:
His results schock (himself):
Yet as Bob Musil points out, an informal poll of the Yale football team shows that 62 players are supporting Bush but only 27 are backing Kerry. I’m half-surprised and half not. There’s no specific reason to think that athletes would vote Republican.
Mr. Adesnik obviously has not spent an appreciable amount of time around athletes. All sorts of anecdotal evidence suggests athletes maintain a conservative tilt. For instance, the majority of athlete-politicians are conservative.
As for systematic scientific explanations, George Lakoff suggests that training to engage in aggressive competition activates the Strict Father or Conservative political frame. People can use different frames for different aspects of life, but those strongly Strict Father in athletics are likely to be the same in other areas of life.
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