College liberalism

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Why are colleges so liberal? Even in states like South Dakota, colleges have Democratic landslides.

Even in the facist-falsified (first Nader, now this!) South Dakota results, Kerry won Clay County, South Dakota (Vermillion and the University of South Dakota), 54-44.

I have never quite understood this.

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I do not base this soley on perception. Public universities are overwhelmingly liberal in all cases I have found. The University of Oregon at Eugene voted 85%-15% Kerry in the precinct results I saw. Similarly, other public universities vote by such landslide margins.

The question primarily references public universities - I know that private ones vary greatly.

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It looks like the more educated a voter is, there are greater chances that he/she did not vote for Bush.
From few private small and non-scientific samples that I took  from high school teachers in CT, it seems that only 25% of them voted Bush, which is almost by 20% lower than the 44% that Bush got in CT.

This is not true. Graduates voted Bush; those with postgraduate degrees voted Kerry. They end up making money, and change party.