Politics

Federal Employees Overwhelmingly Contributed to Obama Campaign

Some agencies show no donations to Romney

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Lawyers in federal agencies contributed more to Barack Obama than Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, a pattern that mirrored giving at every federal agency, a review of Federal Election Commission records by a Pepperdine University law professor reveals.

The analysis also showed the Department of Education and the National Labor Relations Board did not report a single dollar in contributions to Romney from its lawyers.

"This is to be expected to some extent when you have a Democrat in the White House," said Robert Anderson, associate professor of law at Pepperdine, "but I've never seen numbers this lopsided, outside of a politicized organization."