Some interesting stuff here... donations to Jesse Helms, Mark Foley, Rick Santorum, Katharine Harris, Pete Coors... even Dan Quayle for President! Some of them have given a lot (Andre Agassi, Mario Andretti, Lute Olson, Karl Malone, e.g.), some not so much.
FOOTBALL
Troy Aikman –Bush ’04, RNC
Mark Brunell – George Allen, Bush ’04
Chris Collinsworth – Rob Portman, Jim Bunning, KY GOP
Mike Ditka – Bush ’00, Bush ’04, RNC
John Elway – Tom Tancredo, Pete Coors
Lou Holtz – Bush ’00, McCain ’00, Quayle ’00
Bernie Kosar – Mike DeWine ’06, George Voinovich ‘04
Tommy Maddox – Bush ’04, RNC
Peyton Manning – Bush ‘04
Dan Marino – Bush ‘04
Al Michaels (commentator) – Bush ‘04
Bart Starr – RNC, Bush ’04,
Roger Staubach – George Allen, Bush ’04, Jim Bunning, NRSC
Lynn Swan – Pete Coors, Bush ’04, John Kerry for Senate
Jerome Bettis – Bush ’04
Bobby Bowden – RNC, Bush ’00, Bush ‘04
AUTO RACING
Mario Andretti – Rick Santorum, Patrick Toomey, NRSC, NRCC
Darrell Waltrip – RNC, NRSC, Bush ‘04
Greg Biffle – NRSC
Dale Jarrett – RNC, Bush ‘04
Richard Petty – Elizabeth Dole, Jesse Helms
GOLF
Ben Crenshaw – Bush ’00, Bush ’04, John Cornyn
Tom Kite – Bush ‘04
Greg Norman – Bush ’00, Bush ’04, Mark Foley
Tom Watson – RNC
Paul Azinger – Katharine Harris
Ray Floyd – RNC, NRCC, Mark Foley, Quayle ‘00
Peter Jacobsen – Quayle ‘00
Larry Mize – Bush ‘04
Byron Nelson –
Jack Nicklaus – George Voinovich, RNC
Mark O’Meara – Bush ’00, Bush ‘04
Lenny Wadkins – Bush ‘00
Fuzzy Zoeller – Lugar for President ‘95
BASKETBALL
Charles Barkley – John Edwards ’04
Phil Jackson – Bill Bradley
Michael Jordan – Barack Obama, Bill Bradley
Bobby Knight – Bush ‘04
Karl Malone – Bush ’04, RNC
Alonzo Mourning – DNCC
Lute Olson – Rick Santorum, RNC
Jalen Rose – Edwards ‘04
Isaiah Thomas –Bradley ’00, Gore ’00, Jesse Jackson ‘88
Vlade Divac -- DNC
Dikembe Mutumbo – Barack Obama, Jay Rockefeller
TENNIS
Andre Agassi – Tom Harkin, Joe Lieberman, Maria Cantwell, Harry Reid, Kerry for President, Gore for President
Jim Courier – Kerry for President
John McEnroe – Democracy for
Martina Navratilova – Emily’s List
BASEBALL
Rafael Palmeiro – Bush ‘04
Alex Rodriguez – Bush ‘04
Nolan Ryan – Bush ’04, RNC
Hank Aaron – Max Cleland
4 comments:
Once again the tennis player are better than the rest of the athletes.
WE, I am really interested in this and would like to blog on it at some point.
Did you do this research yourself?
I am wondering how Tillman's teammates contributed.
There's an astonishing lack of Dems on your list.
Yes, I did the research myself. I'm planning another similar post this week about a different professional category.
I wasn't too surprised at the lack of Dems... what surprised me most was the extent of support for Bush-Cheney in 2004.
My thinking is that most sports figures voted for Bush because they associated Bush with strength and Kerry with weakness. That's about as far as intellect goes in pro sports... at least in America.
I recall golfer Ben Ogilvy (U.S. Open champ '06) remarking how distressing it is for golf pros to be around the Americans because they're so poorly informed about world affairs yet they go on and on about Bush, the war, etc.
I think they voted for Bush because they're millionaires!!!
I'm interested in this and would like to blog on it if I weren't so fucking busy. I'll probably have to leave it to you.
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