Language Log - always accompanied by the qualifier

Enjoyed Geoff Pullum's post about sloppy use of linguistic evidence. He writes:

The bottom line: people who want to be taken seriously should exercise as much care with their linguistic evidence when making a point about the use of language as they do (or should) with their claims about financial evidence when talking about economics, or psephological evidence when talking about electoral politics, or seismological evidence when talking about earthquakes.

At the same time he agrees with Mark Bauerlein's general argument that there are practically no academics in the states whose politics isn't to the left of John Kerry's and that this is a bad thing.

I wonder how this country compares with the states on this. I know that academia here is broadly made up of 'lefties' (I'm not sure I'm happy with that term but you kind of know what I mean) but I do come across academics who noone would call lefties every now and then. Pullum and Bauerlein make it sound like that would be very unlikely over there.

B-)