POLITICS

In The Diploma Belt, Dems Are Dominant

Since the 1980s, Democrats have dramatically gained strength in the nation's best-educated large counties.

by Ronald Brownstein and David Wasserman

Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009


When L. Brooks Patterson began his career in Republican politics about four decades ago, his home turf, Michigan's Oakland County, tilted so reliably toward the GOP that general elections were almost an afterthought. The real ...

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