<p>Now, I know Ithaca is basically the national gathering place for liberals, but I've also heard that Cornell itself and the area surrounding Ithaca is relatively conservative. </p>
<p>Any current students who go here, would you mind commenting on the political nature of the college and town?</p>
<p>There was a mock election on campus about 2 weeks before the real one, and Kerry won with about 78 or so percent of votes. That should tell you the view of the majority of the students. However, there are a good number of conservatives, and some of them can be quite vocal about it. Aside from the Daily Sun, I'd say the conservative papers (the Review and the American) could very well be the most read publications on campus, although more for shock value in some cases.</p>
<p>On the national day of silence (against hate crimes) the Cornell Review had the headline "Gays finally shut up". So that may give you a feeling of how conservative the right winged students are there. It is not all liberals on campus, but I've heard you have to be really far right to join Young Republicans or clubs like that.</p>
<p>The republicans are very reactionary. There are only about 30 of them in the whole school (minor exaggeration lol), and they know they are outnumbered, so they just try to raise a stink instead of actually working for real change. They present a very bad view of conservative politics; despite being ivy league students with great intellect, they "argue" their points with bigotry and hate rather than logic and contstructive debate. </p>
<p>That said, the campus atmosphere is pretty far left. We joke that ithaca is a battleground area....between the democrats and the greens lol...</p>
<p>yeck, dirty republicans :)</p>
<p>Haha, Gays Finally Shut Up. That's great!</p>
<p>As a conservative Republican, I look forward to bringing my views to Cornell next year.
Watch out lefties</p>
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<p>That is golden. Golden I say!</p>
<p>i think it was the american that posted during 9/11 left ppl were playing jenga outside of risley. not sure i believe it, but i'm sure it did enrage a lot of ppl</p>
<p>lol...that's kind of messed up</p>
<p>As long as there are enough views to spark some great debates.. Political debates are a MUST. :)</p>
<p>agreed hotelie</p>
<p>Yah seeing as Tompkins County voted around 2/3 in favour of Kerry, I think it's safe to say the majority of Ithaca is more left leaning.</p>