Red Pocket In Blue State

In this politics-heavy academic year, it should come as no surprise that the Young Republicans Club at Yeshiva University has recently signed up some 300 members. “We’re the second-largest club on campus, after the Medical Ethics Society,” says the club president, Ben Jacobson. At the same time, membership is also booming at the university’s Young Democrats club, with about a third as many members. But that’s a 100 percent increase over last year, when the club had fallen dormant.

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