NamePolitics

Trish

sits left of most names

liberaltypical nameconservative
Score
−0.38
More liberal than
70% of names
Measured from
976 contributors
more liberalevery scored namemore conservative

That ranking compares Trish with other names. The typical name scores −0.22, because people who donate to campaigns lean left as a group, so a name can sit left of zero and still be middle of the pack. The party splits below use a different yardstick again: each one is measured against an even fifty-fifty.

DIME contributor ideal points, 1979-2014. Negative is liberal, positive conservative.

Trish versus Patricia

People who go by Trish rather than Patricia sit 0.11 to the left of the full name. It is the same name. The difference is what people choose to be called.

Trish
liberalconservative
Patricia
liberalconservative

How does Trish compare with someone else's name?

Party, by population

Different groups of people, measured in different ways. They do not always agree, and the disagreement is usually the interesting part.

Campaign donors, nationwide880 people
65% Democratic35% Republican

Federal contributions, 2016 to 2026. Donors skew older and wealthier than the country.

Another set of donor records points the same way. Among donors to 527 organisations, Trish is 89% Democratic where that pool averages 71%, across 101 people.

Related spellings

Where Trish leans differently

StateDemocratic share of donorsAgainst that state’s own donors
CA69%+0.20
TX36%−0.08
FL47%+0.36
NY80%+0.51
WA70%+0.21
CO56%−0.10

The right column compares Trish with other donors in the same state, so it is not just telling you which states are Democratic.

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