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public and private sector employees vote at roughly the same rate1. working-class and routine non-manual public sector employees show almost no policy difference from their private-sector working-class counterparts2.

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public and private sector employees vote at roughly the same rate

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“Public and private sector employees vote at roughly the same rate”
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working-class and routine non-manual public sector employees show almost no policy difference from their private-sector working-class counterparts

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“Working-class and routine non-manual public sector employees (which would include the parks workers, sanitation workers, transit operators and groundskeepers the user is curious about) show almost **no** policy difference from their private-sector working-class counterparts”
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on social and cultural issues, public and private sector workers look nearly identical

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“On social and cultural issues (immigration, moral traditionalism), public and private sector workers look nearly identical”
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"a small but real left-tilt, driven mainly by unionized professionals"
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