<p>it is my understanding that illinois has been a steady democratic state (i may be wrong and don't call me an idiot for it )</p>
<p>is NU the same way?</p>
<p>i think northwestern tends to be more liberal, so yes</p>
<p>I believe Northwestern leans more Democratic. The state of Illinois overwhelmingly votes blue in elections.</p>
<p>thanks guys. i needed it to make sure the admission officers didn't take my short answer response personally :p if you have the time can you predict my chances based on the credentials? i already have a post up for my chancing...</p>
<p>I would say this: With respect to social issues, Northwestern students are overwhelmingly on the left, but with respect to fiscal issues, they are much more divided. The late Charles Moskos used to take a poll in his Intro to Sociology class, which was a class that had hundreds of students. Last year, given the option between social conservative and social liberal, over 95% of the class self-identified as social liberals. But when given the option between fiscal conservative and fiscal liberal, the class was split about 50-50.</p>
<p>Over the years he had done this, which was a pretty long time, the results changed quite dramatically in that students had shifted to the right on fiscal issues, but it had not changed in that students stayed overwhelmingly liberal on social issues.</p>
<p>Overall, I think it's clear that they overwhelmingly self-identify with the Democratic party.</p>
<p>If you walk around campus, you'll see lots of Obama pins and t-shirts, but you probably won't see any McCain stuff. Read the Daily or North by Northwestern, and you'll read articles written from the perspectives of Democrats. College Democrats has much greater membership, and (controversially) much greater funding than College Republicans, When Facebook revealed their network statistics, which I dunno if they do anymore, but anyways, Northwestern had like 20% of their network identify as 'liberal' and around 2% identify as 'conservative.' In fact, more people identified as 'very liberal' than as conservative.</p>