there are *lot* more liberal college towns like Iowa City than like Princeton and Cambridge.
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Replying to @ZachWahls
"Wealthy and liberal" was my criteria for this category.
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Replying to @mtracey @ZachWahls
Other examples of wealthy liberal enclaves won by Obama and lost by Sanders: Millburn, NJ, Cranbury, NJ, Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Replying to @mtracey @ZachWahls
Also see: San Mateo Co., CA, Marin Co., CA, San Francisco
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Okay, so your point about Sanders underperforming liberal college towns was more about $$$ than liberal college towns?
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Replying to @ZachWahls @mtracey
all I'm saying is in the—relatively—wealthy liberal college town I live in, Sanders crushed Clinton and Obama safely won in 08.
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Replying to @ZachWahls
That makes sense and explains why Iowa City ought not to be put in the same category as Marin Co., Princeton, or Cambridge.
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so it's not actually about liberal college towns at all, it's that lots of wealthy communities happen to also have colleges.
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Replying to @ZachWahls
Yes -- "has a college" is not the operative variable. Wealth is the operative variable.
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Replying to @mtracey
right. And I'm not trying to be obtuse: your initial tweet is suggesting that Obama is the typical liberal insurgent?
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He was an atypical liberal insurgent in that he expanded the coalition enough to win.
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Replying to @mtracey @ZachWahls
But he began with a demographic base that you'd normally associate with a liberal insurgent.
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