Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm back to with John Cochran of the Hoover Institution. He keeps the grumpy economist blog, and he veers from this or that, and I follow him as best I can, he surprised me moving from economics to Vote County.

There is an aggregate way of talking about the votes in

Stanford, California, asking the question,

how diverse are we when it comes to voting?

This is a momentary glimpse

because there was a primary within these last hours in California and

decisions made about Diane Feinstein's seat and other important opportunities including the presidential primary

for both candidates. And what I learned from you wasn't a surprise to me, John, I

suspect because I've always understood the campus environment in the United States

certainly 60 70 years I can reach back that far from my own experience was always left of center, always that way in some fashion, but it seems

way out of focus, way out of a whack today. Not how did we get here? How bad is it John from your estimate?

Well it's not just the campus average left to center. It's the the

purge of the conservatives which includes anybody labeled Republican and it's hilarious

we have all these diversity offices that studiously don't keep numbers on these

things even though they're easy to find. So I repost that my colleague

Alphan Rabushka likes to find these numbers. So he looked up

voting patterns in the zip codes that include Stanford and you know the numbers are

something like 2% Republican as they have been throughout the last

elections. These numbers are fairly easy to get if you care, you know match voting

voting records and political donation records are public records and

the same bureaucracy that asks you about your sexual preferences could ask you easily about

your ideological ones but it's a dirty little secret and more generally there's been a lot of studies that

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