How do certain sports fans vote?

[Nichlemn]

What about people who don't care for any sports? I presume they're fairly Democratic, being disproportionately female and/or counter-cultural.

[Nichlemn]

What about people who don't care for any sports? I presume they're fairly Democratic, being disproportionately female and/or counter-cultural.

Agree with that but there are females that are sports fans and have been few athletes that were part of counter-cultural/feminist movement such as Bill Walton and Billie Jean King. I would think they are more of socialist/green then Dems but I would put Democrats in second with far-right such as Alex Jones nutjobs in third for those that don't care about sports.

More socialist/green than average, sure, but those groups are so small that it's very unlikely they make up a plurality. There's possibly an ultra-religious component, too.

I wonder what percentage of Americans fall into this category. The larger the percentage, the more likely it is be reflective of general preferences. FWIW, I'm a non-sports fan (albeit non-American), but I follow politics as if it were a sport.

[Nichlemn]

National Media Research did a study on this in 2008.  They found:

PGA went R +50
College football R +45
NASCAR R+40
NHL R+30
College Basketball R+15
NFL R+10
MLB R+5
Men's Tennis D+20
Major League Soccer D+40
Women's tennis D+55
NBA D+60
WNBA D+99

Other (possibly) surprising results, while drag racing (R+25) and motorcross (R+15) skewed Republican, Grand-Am racing (D+10), monster trucks (D+15) and WWE (D+60) skewed Democrat, pro-"wrasslin" very much so.

I also agree with Rockefeller, college football is a much better sport than NFL. It is much more passionate.  That is why only 4 NFL teams have a higher average attendance than the average SEC team and no NFL team has a higher average attendance than Tennessee, Georgia, LSU, Alabama, Florida or Auburn.

Link?

[Nichlemn]

I'm curious about the college sports phemenon. It just doesn't exist to any real degree in NZ (and I think not many other places outside the USA). Personally, I think the concept of "student athletes" is dumb. Why unnecessarily bundle half a sociology degree with high level sports?

[Nichlemn]

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Without paying the athletes. Nice.

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Then why not have some kind of "amateur league" that replicates college football entirely except the athletes don't need to do a college degree?

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They exist, but they're not followed much more than children's teams.

[Nichlemn]

Any New Yorker and New Englenders that have any idea on how New York and Boston sport teams vote in their area. I tend to see teams that have an older more white fanbase such as the Giants to have Republican leaning since they are the stereotype old white male that usually helps them win elections.

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They all vote Democratic.

What makes you think that besides that it's the Northeast?

New York and Boston are so Democratic that even if their sports teams have substantially more Republican fan bases, it's still unlikely to make them Republican overall.