Washington, DC is owned by the Democratic Party, regardless of who is the President and what party has majority in Congress. More than 90% of Washington population votes for Democrats. Despite votes leak to the libertarian candidate, the nation has elected Trump. In the same time, the ratio of Hillary to Trump voters in Washington, DC has been more than 16:1. If Trump wants to make a real change, he needs to move most government operations from DC to the United States, and to hire new people with technical and managerial experience in the business sector. National Scientific Foundation (NSF), National Academy of Science (NAS), and NASA are the first candidates for drastic change that come to mind. EPA should be abolished, and its few useful functions might be spread among other departments.

Since some of the federal government and quasi-governmental organizations reside in Arlington, VA, one might want to consider Washington and Arlington together. The ratios of Democratic (including Naderite and Green) to Republican (including Libertarian) voters :

Year D/R ratio Washington Washington + Arlington 2016 16.3 : 1 9.1 : 1 2012 12.5 : 1 6.1 : 1 2008 14.2 : 1 6.9 : 1 2004 9.5 : 1 5.2 : 1 2000 10.1 : 1 5.1 : 1

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NSF, NAS, NASA, AAAS, Science journal, and multiple scientific societies are headquartered in DC. Just like in EPA and IRS, their staff consists of Democrats, surrounded by Democrats, dining, drinking, and sleeping with Democrats, all immersed in the leftist echo-chamber. The “scientific” bodies are also soaked with the academic prejudices against conservatives and Republicans. Thus, it is not surprising that they have embraced Al Gore, and became carrier of Climatism.

George W. Bush did not have any chance against them, even if he tried. But he appointed John Marburger, a Democrat, as his Science Advisor in September 2001. John Marburger remained in the position until 2009, when Obama replaced him with radical John Holdren.

This is a follow up to my research paper The Solved Riddle of the 2016 Climate Change “Consensus Letter”, devoted to the latest “con census letter”, signed or not signed by political leaders of formerly respected scientific societies.

The following table (pre-2016) shows the raw data from http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ . Votes for candidates, other than Democratic and Republican, were added only when the candidate got more than 1%.

Washington, DC Arlington, VA (Nader) < Dems Republican > (none) (Nader) < Dems Republican > (Libertarian) 2012 267,070 21,381 81,269 34,474 1,178 2008 245,800 17,367 78,994 29,876 2004 202,970 21,256 63,987 29,635 2000 10,576 171,923 18,073 3,952 50,260 28,555