Again, I don’t fully dispute that. But enough to affect congressional representation?
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Replying to @JeffreyASachs @Musa_alGharbi and
If you lifted U Mich out of Ann Arbor, Michigan-12 would get a whole lot more competitive.
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Replying to @asymmetricinfo @JeffreyASachs and
Pretty standard on election night for early returns to look red, while commentators say "Wait for [insert name of college town]" to come in, at which point it flips blue.
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Replying to @asymmetricinfo @Musa_alGharbi and
UCLA has more faculty and admins (about 30,000) than any other top ranked university in the country. Toss in its student body and you’ve got 75,000. Many (most) of those people will not vote in that district or won’t vote at all.
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Replying to @JeffreyASachs @asymmetricinfo and
Those who do vote will vote for a variety of candidates, Dem and GOP alike. What are the odds that UCLA will meaningfully shape a district’s PVI?
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Replying to @JeffreyASachs @Musa_alGharbi and
UCLA is also in the middle of a huge city, so that its faculty and students do not cluster within a single district as they do in smaller college towns. Moreover, it's located in an already blue area. This isn't the right school to look at.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @asymmetricinfo and
Or, more accurately, Massachusetts 2 before redistricting. Multiple colleges made that congressional district more liberal than the places around it for sure.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @asymmetricinfo and
Madison is an extreme example, its sheer size plus the state government totally dominates a fairly small city.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and
I may be wrong but Chapel Hill, NC comes to mind. Raleigh and Durham have schools too but they're large enough they're kind of blue already, but Chapel Hill seems a little bit bluer than both as sort of the Triangle's "college town" for UNC
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If you're looking for college towns that shape the political geography, the big state universities are where the action is.
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