monroe county indiana...what happened?

[WalterMitty]

bush won by 4 in the county in 2000.

kerry carried it by 8 in 04.

what caused this swing?

[WalterMitty]

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.

[WalterMitty]

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.

what about college station texas?

[WalterMitty]

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.

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.

university of virginia in charlottesville is another exception.  very liberal.

[WalterMitty]

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

[WalterMitty]

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.