Posted on 07/24/2023 7:22:47 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
College towns are not only getting bluer, but getting bluer by higher margins and driving higher turnout for Democrats in elections — in some cases, providing the party with enough force to soundly trounce Republicans in statewide elections.
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Wake up. ADDRESSES hiding in dirty voter roles.
But muh free student loan forgiveness.
College towns have college professors and employees. Just wait until the students leave and start paying taxes and possibly repaying their loans.
a root cause for underperformance in Dane Co is former chair was a useless GOPE apparatchik more interested in attending functions than doing the ard work of grass roots. His mentor is current Ronna Romney minion Brian Schimming. With Schimming in leadership Wisconsin is off the map and 4 more years of regime
Buttwipe became mayor of South Bend, because of the votes from Notre Dame students and faculty. Some Catholics they are.
I am at least consoled knowing that when the marxists do formally seize power, the college professor/intellectual class will be the first ones purged, exactly like Stalin did.
Ultimately he knew that those who could persuade the masses that started the revolution would naturally be the most dangerous to him. so he purged them including many of his staunchest supporters from the beginning.
I have read several books about life in Stalinist Russia and all I can say is the teaching profession was about as dangerous as can be. One slip of the lip landed many in Siberia or worse.
The worst thing you could be in The Soviet Union was to be more popular than Stalin. Sergei Kirov, found that out the hard way.
Not any more. The old polling wisdom of the 1990s does not apply. The Democrat vote generating machinery is very powerful and maximizes college town turnouts.
true! we are looking to retire and college towns are off my list.
Living near UMW is bad enough.
It is not just the students. It is all the professors, administration and their families. Here in NH we have several college towns. Towns where UNH Durham, Dartmouth, Keene state, and Plymouth State dominate the town. In these towns they are the main economic driver in these areas. Most of the people who work in the college/university systems are also liberal.
Yes, there is a transient student population that come and go. Many do not bother to register. The problem is that the ones who do vote may also vote in their home town too. The Dems have been VERY active in getting out the vote in these college towns. The Republican have NOT. When the Dem POTUS candidates come to NH, they do not go to suburbs of Nashua and Manchester. They go to Durham and Keene.
The remedies: More decentralized, online education, rather than campuses that concentrate leftists into controlling voting blocks. Wholesale elimination of useless programs and woke law schools. Protection of conservatives and religios people on campus.
IF I were still hiring & firing-—I would make sure I NEVER hire anyone who got their student loans forgiven.
Right. Because “college towns” weren’t getting people to vote in lockstep before now.
Keep giving them that football money. They don’t use any of that to fund left-wing activity (sarc).
Since Conservative dissent is pretty much outlawed on University campuses these days of course you are going to see a growth in more radical left students. Those who will not be voting that way are not going to risk exposing their political affiliations.
Even worse, many vote from their college town AND from their hometown/state.
Not sure why.
Used to be. But they have gotten more engaged in voting. Of course it helps that the DNC actually work to get people to vote. RNC uses hope and crossed fingers to get people motivated to vote. Republicans absolutely suck at getting voters out. Why no souls to the polls? Can you imagine if every megachurch had a Sunday where everyone went to vote after church. Catholic Churches could do it as well. Republicans are lazy.
August 8th will be interesting. If we continue our string of loss’, it’s not going to be pretty in 2024. I know the lazy blame cheating. but the democrats are more motivated the last 4 years.
BINGO
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