Big Red Barack

Looking at the NYT's Democratic results map, I noticed that ole' Tompkins is the only county in New York state to have gone for Obama. That New York would be solidly in Hillary's column doesn't surprise. But neither does the Tompkins exception. After all, it's been the only Democratic bastion in upstate New York for god knows how long, and Ithaca had an officially Democratic Socialist major for a good long time. Combine that with a school with a celebrated (though lately overrated) activist tradition. Why other collegetowns didn't swing Obama's way is inteesting, but perhaps Cornell is just disproportionately dominant there.