Could the democrat party survive without the support of the media, universities and labor unions?

[James]

Polls on how Americans saw the mainstream media (TV and print) election coverage in 2008:
-Rasmussen poll: 69% for Obama, 6% for McCain
-Pew Research poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain
-Sacred Heart University poll: 68% for Obama, 9% for McCain
-Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain

University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy survey of journalists, nationwide, during the 2008 election: 52% supported Obama versus 19% for McCain.

9/2009 Sacred Heart University Polling Institute: 69.9% agreed the national news media are intent on promoting the Obama presidency while 26.5% disagreed.

9/23/10 Pew Research poll: 43% of those who perceive bias say it is liberal; 23% say they see conservative bias.

9/29/10 Gallup poll: Distrust of the media Edges Up to Record High
Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias: 48% say the media are too liberal; 15% say they are too conservative.

9/22/11 Gallup poll: 60% perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative.

8/15/12 Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far; 18% think his Republican challenger has been treated better.

8/25/12 politico.com: Arthur Brisbane, the departing public editor at the New York Times, has accused the paper of having a progressive bias, even as he champions its disciplined approach to fair and balanced reporting.

8/25/12 New York Times: Arthur Brisbane wrote:
"Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times."
“As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.”

3/29/05 Washington Post: “College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.”
-72% of higher education teachers are liberal, 15% conservative
-50% identified themselves as democrat, 11% republican
-At elite schools: 87% are liberal, 13% conservative.

5/20/12 L. A. Times: “At the University of California at Berkeley the ratio of Democrats to Republicans even in the hard sciences had grown to 10 to 1 in 2004, many times what it was 30 years ago...”
“In the humanities and social sciences the ratios were 17 to 1 and 21 to 1, respectively.”

All labor unions give at least 90% of their political cash to demcrats. The government teachers' union, the National Education Association gives 95% of its political cash to democrats.

[Victor]

Can the GOP on old white guys?

[Alan Turing]

Of course. It is the party of the middle class.

Let me ask you whether the Republican Party can survive on old white men? Each year the percentage of old white men in our population is decreasing.

[lowterritory023]

Labor unions and universities leach off the public coffers so they would love to have more coffer money from a Democrate president. The media just has a very low IQ and only sees the externalities of every situation.

[Augustus]

The intellectuals and the workers, who needs anything else?

[Phil]

no,and without them to spread propaganda democrats would fade away quickly

[manifest ohhhh]

liberalism is unsustainable when left to stand on it's own merits........they always need someone to exploit and someone to pander to......

[dasuberding]

NO!

[Justin Pelham]

You know what would realy hurt us? Get rid of the educated

[mom]

Same might be said about the Republican Party and the money movers, corporations, the rich owners etc. Republicans go crazy over unions and don't seem to realize that less than 11 % of all American workers are union. You can go to statistics.gov to find that out. It would seem to me that people would realize that unions are workers only and just like the rich like to cover each others backs, so do workers. How can you be so afraid of 10.8 something, anything? That means 90% are not union. What exactly are you afraid of? The big bad wolf? Better to be afraid of the corporative union to jack the workers. LIke bringing illegals in to take their jobs, like out sourcing their jobs, like working them less than forty hours for the express purpose of not paying OT and other benefits. The American unions worked hard to get the American workers to be able to work only 40 hours a wk, for sick time and bereavement time off, for coffee breaks, for OT, for decent work places and hosts of other things and you want to demonize them. Unions are still working in the coal fields for decent work conditions so they don't get killed for doing a job or die from some type of disease caused by an industry specific problem like coal dust causes Black Lung. The Republican politicians make it their prime assignment to keep the coal operators happy and keep the lobbyist money rolling in to the lawmakers. Why do you think lawmakers go home rich after serving in the senate or house or as local officials. They sure don't earn it sitting there blocking anything the other party wants without even investigating it. So the Democrats want to fund social projects and Republicans want to fund wars. Both are over funded. Use your noggin for thinking, not branding a cow. Of course the democrats will survive and so will Republicans. There are too many people who think like me for them not to.

Also I don't read much of any of the newspapers you mention. I go to one specific newspaper to look at obits in my own home state and local news. Otherwise, I read the store ads, the home section and the recipes. I don't watch much TV except old shows and a couple of favorites in the evening. Don't go to movies either. I watch those I want to at home.

Edit: I don't know how universities got so darned liberal. They cost a fortune to go to and you could be right --- They are extremely liberal with the money they charge to teach, but little of that goes back into teaching.