monroe county indiana...what happened?

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College town - Bloomington.  Bush didn't fall by all THAT much, and Kerry made up Nader's support.

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College town - Bloomington.  Bush didn't fall by all THAT much, and Kerry made up Nader's support.

here is a stupid question:  are college kids in indiana, particularly state college kids, *that* liberal?  maybe so.

apparently the kids in madison wisconsin are liberal.

You would be hard-pressed to find a major state college area that isn't liberal.

I don't have Salt Lake County precinct results, but even the University of Idaho and Idaho State University areas are quite liberal.  You'd be surprised how little it matters about where they draw from; outside of Berkeley, the most liberal college town on the West Coast is Ashland, Oregon (Southern Oregon University) which is - genuinely - the only truly Dem area in southern Oregon.  Kinda weird, isn't it?

Also, I should mention that it's not necessarily the KIDS who are voting.  People make the mistake of assuming college towns are liberal primarily because the students outvote the other residents.  Not so.

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Where does Nevada have its state uni? Nebraska? Wyoming?

University of Nevada is in Reno with a branch campus in Las Vegas.

Nevada State College is located in Henderson, but has about 1,500 students and is in a very suburban area.

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College Station is one of your few exceptions (although I'm not sure how conservative the college area itself is, the county is very conservative).

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Cleveland County (Norman, OK) is pretty conservative.

Johnson County (Warrensburg, MO) seems to be red or slightly purple, but we CMSUers don't really switch our voting addresses to Warrensburg. Well, I didn't.

I'm speaking more of the largest universities in every state, not so much regional universities.  Not sure how big CMSU is.

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Cleveland County is insanely polarized.  The college area tends to vote Dem, though; you can tell by looking at the gay marriage results.

I will give you the University of Alabama.  Bush won it, about 57-42.

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Centre, PA   (Penn State doesn't seem to affect this county, must not be a liberal school)

The 2000 results for State College Borough pretty much say it all.  It's what makes the county competitive.  Penn State is strongly liberal, although not remarkably for a college area.

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A lot of Southern state schools are Republican. Ole Miss (which is the nickname not of the state but of the lady of a plantation), LSU, Univesity Tennessee in Knoxville. It's a totally different scene down here. University of Georgia is a big exception though.

I tried to check all of those, but I've lost my file with Mississippi results and Louisiana precincts are impossible to determine the location of with the data I have.

Funny story for University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  The university precinct itself actually gave Bush a very narrow win, but the college neighborhood (around Fort Sanders) is actually fairly Democratic.  Overall, I'd say Kerry won narrowly.  [Edit: Not funny.  Edutainment.]

The South definitely is different though.  The white population is just that Republican.

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montgomery county virginia, home of virginia tech went for bush, by 10 points.

Virginia Tech itself is Democratic, though, as is most of Blacksburg.

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i cant remember if radford university in virginia is a state university, but bush did carry the independent city of radford (the city of my birth, by the way) by 300 votes.

Radford is public.  Kerry won the precinct containing the university and east site of the city (Virginia precincts are big), 50.6%-48.6%.