Crowdpac?is?a nonpartisan group that focuses on how money and policy work together in?politics. Their primary function is to “Find candidates that match your priorities. Our unique data model shows you where politicians stand on the issues, based on what they say, how they vote and who gives them money.”
Using their software and data, they are able to score all donors who have made two or more campaign contributions since 1980. From BuzzFeed:
Using that algorithm ? and a cut-off of names with at least 1,000 donations made to avoid unusual names and outliers ? Crowdpac built a tool to show how conservative or liberal first names are.
You’ll notice there is a very stark gender divide! The liberal names generally sound like a group of women in their late 20s; the conservative names sound like the members of a large bluegrass band from the 1930s. This makes sense: Women are more likely to be Democrats, for one thing, and the liberal names also generally represent younger Americans, while the conservative names generally skew older.
This is really fun! I entered my name and there are 231 names more liberal than mine. But thank goodness, Tiffany is barely in the top 1,000 of popular conservative names, or rather, according to their algorithm, people named Tiffany are way too smart to give money to conservatives. (ha)
Give it a try and let us know how your name scores.
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