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Alumni by the numbers
September/October 2009

©Mark Zurolo '01MFA

If you think Yale alumni lean a little to the left, you're probably right. In a 2006 Yale Alumni Magazine survey, 53 percent of a representative sample of readers identified themselves as Democrats, 25 percent as Republicans, and 19 percent as independents. For comparison, a Pew Research Center national survey of registered voters that same year turned up 35 percent Democrats, 31 percent Republicans, and 34 percent independents.  

Readers respond
In brief

All I can say is, "One in Four, Maybe More."

As a Republican, I can only hope it’s "More.”

Thomas J. Rice '82
Briarcliff Manor, NY

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