How Athletes voted

[mileslunn]

Of the following professional athletes, who do you think won each. 

Basketball
Baseball
Football
Soccer
Olympics
Golf
Tennis
Hockey

My guesses are:

Basketball - Biden obviously as majority African-American

Baseball - Probably evenly split or narrowly Trump.  Whites probably favored Trump, Hispanics Biden but closer than overall Hispanic vote

Football - Biden but very strong racial polarization

Golf - Trump obviously

Tennis - Evenly split, maybe narrowly Biden

Olympics - Biden

Hockey - Trump of those who can vote.  Most are Canadian or European and majority of them probably rooting for Biden, but of American ones, Trump.  And even amongst Canadian and European, more support for Trump than amongst people in their country generally.  In Canada only 18% wanted Trump to win, but I am guessing amongst Canadian NHL players, probably 30-40% wanted Trump to win.

[Asta]

Basketball - Biden by a landslide

Baseball - Trump

Football - Biden (There was a mock poll on Buffalo Bills 4 years ago reportedly. All white players supported Trump. All black players except a couple supported Clinton)

Soccer - Biden (Women's soccer overwhelmingly Biden)

Olympics - Tossup

Golf - Trump by a landslide

Tennis - Biden (ATP is maybe narrowly for Trump but WTA players would probably back Biden more heavily)

Hockey - Trump among those who can vote (Among international players,
Biden probably won Canadians and Scandinavian countries
Trump probably won Russians, Czech and others)

[Skill and Chance]

Basketball - Biden by a landslide

Baseball - Trump

Football - Biden (There was a mock poll on Buffalo Bills 4 years ago reportedly. All white players supported Trump. All black players except a couple supported Clinton)

Soccer - Biden (Women's soccer overwhelmingly Biden)

Olympics - Tossup

Golf - Trump by a landslide

Tennis - Biden (ATP is maybe narrowly for Trump but WTA players would probably back Biden more heavily)

Hockey - Trump among those who can vote (Among international players,
Biden probably won Canadians and Scandinavian countries
Trump probably won Russians, Czech and others)

I'm not sure about baseball and football.  If we are thinking specifically about MLB and the NFL, I would say Lean Trump for MLB and Lean Biden for NFL, but it could be close.  MLB in particular was likely Clinton 2016->Trump 2020.  College baseball and most of the minor leagues (rural) have probably been Lean R for a while.  Women's softball almost surely went to Biden.

I don't think Olympians were close at all.  They were most likely a Biden landslide overall with Trump winning only a few men's events.  They are too young and internationally inclined to break for Trump. 

Tennis was probably Safe R straight through from Harding to Romney, but Tilt D by 2020.

[freepcrusher]

is there a difference between pro golfers and people who golf for a hobby? When I think of golf - I think of Charles Percy type republicans. Otoh, there's a lot of golf in Brunswick and Horry counties and those are very GOP counties.

[H. Ross Peron]

NASCAR drivers went for Trump though the margins with them (given many nonwhite drivers and drivers generally being younger) were smaller than with NASCAR fans.

[Skill and Chance]

is there a difference between pro golfers and people who golf for a hobby? When I think of golf - I think of Charles Percy type republicans. Otoh, there's a lot of golf in Brunswick and Horry counties and those are very GOP counties.

For athletic/artistic fields in general, I would expect there is a gradient from hobbyist to part time to up and coming to famous where the hobbyists are the most likely to vote Republican in modern times and those who are famous for that sport/type of entertainment are most likely to vote Democratic.   

Golf is interesting.  I think most "preppy" sports (crew/rowing, fencing, lacrosse/field hockey, etc.) flipped R->D in 2008 for women's events and in 2016 for men's, but so few young people play golf that I doubt it moved like the others. 

[mileslunn]

Car racing definitely went for Trump.  For professional golf, my guess is senior's PGA massively for Trump, PGA tour solidly for Trump but would have had your fair share of Romney-Biden voters too as a lot of rich suburban areas saw pretty big swings.  LPGA probably narrowly Trump but most competitive of three.

[mileslunn]

Another forgotten is professional Wrestlers if you count that as a sport.  My guess is Trump won them.  He is close with Vince McMahon and sort of seems like a very Trump like sport.  Also race car drivers I suspect voted for Trump too.