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> Over 90% of US state personnel vote Democrat

Yeah gonna need a source for that.




Since I can't find my original source anymore, I cannot defend this statement right now - consider it retracted. There are multiple sources for "majority democrat", but nothing close to 90%.

What I did find, and what I possibly confused it with, was that political spending of the respective government employee unions are overwhelmingly democrat:

"Of course, it’s not just teachers’ unions. In the 2020 election cycle alone, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) dedicated 99.1% of its political spending to Democrats. The American Federation of Government Employees gave 95.6% to Democrats." [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210416210710/https://www.balti...


Appreciated, that's what a cursory Google search brought up too, the Democratic lead was in the single digits based on poll data.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/11/poll-federal-emplo...




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