<p>I am pretty sure that Dubya is from Mass-a-chew-sits.</p>
<p>Yeah, but in 2000 it was 65/35 (more like 33 / 67 if you count 3rd party candidates) , so I don't think you can attribute it to MA being Kerry's home state ('96 was 62/36). In '88 the split was 53/45, despite the fact that Dukakis was from MA. I think the 2000 campaign is a pretty good indicator of the state's views because the popular vote overall was so close to 50/50 and neither candidate was from MA.</p>
<p>(Of course, Bush lost in his native state in both the 2000 and 2004 election cycles...)</p>
<p>That's just like Dubya, running off to strange states like Texas while assuming his buddies home at Mass-a-chew-sits will be solidly behind him. What a fool he was.</p>
<p>Well, let's not forget that Kerry was born in Colorado. He didn't carry that state either :)</p>
<p>'Twas no problem though, because Kerry carried the rest of the nation easily and won the election in a landslide.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, I want to merge with Canada, if just to regain control of the Senate. :p</p>
<p>The Best plan is to form two separate nations in the North American continent: The United States and Provinces of Amexica and Canada, and The Republic of Quebec.</p>
<p>Bush was born in Connecticut, not Massachusetts, but still didn't carry his birth state if that's what ya'll are talking about.</p>
<p>Have heard the following</p>
<p>Very Liberal Schools
Brown
Cornell
U Penn
Columbia</p>
<p>In the Middle
Dartmouth
Harvard
Yale</p>
<p>The Lone Conservative School
Princeton</p>
<p>The reason why I put Harvard in the middle because I've heard that despite the fact that professors tend to be very liberal that the students tend to lean towards both sides.</p>
<p>Gore didn't carry Tennessee... a lot of presidential candidates seem to have plenty of trouble carrying their home states, lol.</p>
<p>if i remember correctly, columbia has the largest future republicans of america group.</p>
<p>sorry for the edit, but i am not saying columbia is conservative just throwing a fact out there. honestly they are in NYC once of the most liberal places in the country!</p>
<p>Haha I think Columbia is very liberal. They have been that way ever since some of their students tried to assassinate their school president for being a Tory.</p>
<p>I am NOT saying that this Princeton Prof. is the norm.. but Liberalism is strewn throughout higher education. Any time you are asking people to think in new and different ways there are likely some people who will go to either extreme. This is part of the process of education. I'm sure there are some who cheer and others who jeer this latest event. CARACAS, Venezuela The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush the greatest terrorist in the world on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.</p>
<p>Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavezs television and radio broadcast Sunday.</p>
<p>Of course Hollywood and the liberal education system needs involved. As if things werent bad enough, you tag on an actor and a University scholar. These people arent Americans! They praise communism and they praise socialism, which has historically been the stepping stone towards communism and fascism.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I am pretty sure that Dubya is from Mass-a-chew-sits.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>George I was born in MA in grew up mostly in Connecticut.</p>
<p>George II was born in Connecticut and grew up mostly in Texas.</p>
<p>Princeton isn't even close to being conservative, guys. Perhaps relatively, but to say that Princeton is a "conservative" school is completely wrong, sorry to tell you. I wouldn't even put it at moderate.</p>
<p>P'09</p>
<p>Somehow I totally forgot about this thread. Anyway, I mentioned the Kerry home state thing because he serves MA currently. Sorry about that confusion. Anyway, I don't know the exact stats, but people I've talked to who are active in politics around here always refer to it as a 40/60 state. Perhaps it is moving to be more democratic in the long term; I really have no idea.</p>
<p>I suppose most states probably swing no more than 60% in either direction.</p>
<p>Penn and Cornell do not belong to the left of Harvard and Yale. Taking as a given that most students at all eight would have voted for Kerry, Penn's nowhere close to the Brown/Wesleyan/Oberlin end of the granola spectrum. Vegans in hemp T-shirts do not join fraternities and sororities at the rate that Penn and Cornell students do.</p>