{"id":1408,"date":"2012-10-25T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2012-10-25T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:38:13","slug":"first-names-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"First Names and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/infographic-how-your-first-name-can-predict-your-politics.html\">analysis of donor data<\/a> from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) conducted by Chris Wilson at Yahoo News suggests that first names may be a predictor of a person&#8217;s political affiliation. It turns out that Republicans seem to have a hold on names like Donald and Sharon, whereas Democrats attract contributions from people with names like Angela and Willie. You can play around with the data and draw your own conclusions using the embedded chart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/4b067982625541b415aa-69589cd039d332357e4543fc28818765.r17.cf1.rackcdn.com\/spectrum3.html\" width=\"630\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of donor data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) conducted by Chris Wilson at Yahoo News suggests that first names may be a predictor of a person&#8217;s political affiliation. It turns out that Republicans seem to have a hold on names like Donald and Sharon, whereas Democrats attract contributions from people with names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='First Names and Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/first-names-and-politics\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[447,311,448,314,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}