re: #5 Killgore Trout

From the article

In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data, 96% of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees went to Barack Obama,” he said. “There was more disagreement among the old Soviet politburo than there is among Ivy League donors.

Given the seething hatred the GOP has for science and all forms of learning and thinking, 96% seems just about right on the merits from a university crowd.