monroe county indiana...what happened?

[Cubby]

Counties that are dominated by State Universities:

Latah, ID
Whitman, WA
Benton, OR
Cleveland, OK (Which is way too Republican for a College County)
Travis, TX
Brazos, TX
Oktibbeha, MS
Alachua, FL
Clarke, GA
Durham & Orange, NC
Albemarle, VA
Boone, MO
Douglas, KS
Story, IA
Dane, WI
McLean, IL
Monroe & St. Joseph, IN
Ingham & Washtenaw, MI
Athens, OH
Centre, PA   (Penn State doesn't seem to affect this county, must not be a liberal school)
Mercer, NJ
Ulster/Tompkins/Cortland, NY
Tolland, CT
Hampshire, MA

[Cubby]

Kind of surprising that Boone County, MO is not more Democratic. Kerry only did a few points better there than in the state as a whole

It just barely missed going to Kerry, who did terrible in rural Missouri, just not Oklahoma bad. The university in Boone is what makes it more liberal than the surrounding counties.

Wyoming's State school is in Albany County, in the city of Laramie. It is much more Democratic than the state as a whole. Laramie County has the capital (Cheyenne) and a military base, its less Democratic.