Posted: 05.08.2008 / 6:17 AM EDT
Coming to Ireland after a week of mostly tuning out the campaign in Italy (not by choice — no Internet where I was staying), I finally got my hands on an English-language newspaper. The analysis from Denis Staunton, The Irish Times’s reporter covering the race, is this: The race to the White House is over for Clinton.
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Andrew Grossman is a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is editor in chief of The Michigan Daily, the university's student-run daily newspaper. He's covered state, local, and campus politics. This summer, Mr. Grossman will be an intern at Automotive News, a Detroit-based newspaper that covers the automotive industry. His fifth-grade yearbook says he wants to be a professional basketball coach when he grows up, but now he's aiming for a career in journalism or business when he graduates in May 2009.
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Michael O'Brien is a senior at the University of Michigan, where he is editor in chief of The Michigan Review, a conservative campus weekly.
High percentage of the population between 18-34, few retirees or elderly; includes university/college towns and locations with high employment in education and educational services; high levels of formal education; religious diversity, secularism.
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"U of M, as the locals call it, is an urban campus. Its buildings and parking structures blend in with ones not associated with the university. And 40,000 or so students here – that includes both undergraduate and graduate – are a sizable portion of the city's 114,000 residents..."
| Population, income, and education | |
| Population | (2006)346,505 |
| Median household income | (per year)$57,293 |
| Median age | 37.1 |
| Families in poverty | (%) 5.1% |
| High school graduates | (%) 91.5% |
| Bachelors degree | (%) 48.1% |
| Ethnicity (percent listed for all below) | |
| White | 75.2% |
| Black | 13.1% |
| Latino | 3.5% |
| Native American | 0.4% |
| Bi-racial | 2.5% |
| Asian-Pacific | 8.8% |
| Employment (percent listed for all below) | |
| Military | 0.1% |
| Government | 17.3% |
| Agriculture | 0.6% |
| Professional | 10.9% |
| Trade and services | 25.4% |
(Colors on map represent unique voter communities)
