<p>While Dartmouth may have gotten much more liberal in the last 10 years, I wouldn’t use their high rates of electing Obama as an indication of that necessarily. </p>
<p>IRL, I’ve observed plenty of right-leaning centrists and even some conservatives/libertarians who voted for Obama because they felt McCain and/or Palin was a non-starter choice for them. </p>
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<p>Good point. </p>
<p>However, I’m not sure if he’s a real Dartmouth student. IME, most Dartmouth students/alums are socially aware enough to not express any distaste/disdain for hippies and GBLT people in such a gauche manner even if they harbored such attitudes.</p>
<p>I checked with my S, a current Dartmouth student, and he confirmed that the prevailing politics at D are not conservative but liberal. He did say that he thought D was less left-leaning than most other Ivies and schools of its type. I have the feeling, from his description, that one would find a substantial I-banker wannabee contingent that is what one might call “socially liberal, economically conservative.”</p>
<p>The Dartmouth Review contingent is pretty much a fringe group in this context, it would appear. Balanced by fringe groups on the other end of the spectrum.</p>