{"id":4791,"date":"2018-11-14T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2018-11-14T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:55:17","slug":"what-is-the-republican-people-here-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/14\/what-is-the-republican-people-here-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the % republican people here &#038; % democrat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111418-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4783\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111418-2-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"What is the % republican people here &amp; % democrat?\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111418-2-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw111418-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is the % republican people here &amp; % democrat?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve answered this once before, last Spring: There are dependable resources on political leanings of college students in general, such as the Panetta Institute surveys (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/panetta-surveys\">bit.ly\/panetta-surveys<\/a>), and there are dependable measures of past voting by district, such as the CPVI (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/wiki-cpvi\">bit.ly\/wiki-cpvi<\/a>). BC&#8217;s district (MA-04) has a CPVI of D+9, which means it is 9 percentage points above the share of democratic party votes in the last two presidential elections. But there are few dependable college-by-college surveys. MyPlan.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/myplan-college-politics\">bit.ly\/myplan-college-politics<\/a>) ranks BC as 392\/500 &#8220;most liberal&#8221; colleges and 112\/500 of &#8220;most conservative&#8221; colleges, based on ratings by about 11,000 MyPlan.com users. Sound method? Doubtful. Do the math &#8211; if 500 colleges are rated by 11,000 raters rating their alma maters, that&#8217;s barely 22 raters per college on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve answered this once before, last Spring: There are dependable resources on political leanings of college students in general, such as the Panetta Institute surveys (bit.ly\/panetta-surveys), and there are dependable measures of past voting by district, such as the CPVI (bit.ly\/wiki-cpvi). BC&#8217;s district (MA-04) has a CPVI of D+9, which means it is 9 percentage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/14\/what-is-the-republican-people-here-democrat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the % republican people here &#038; % democrat?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}