ann arbor is overrated.

The Clinton campaign is characterizing Obama’s efforts to draw student voters as “trying to manipulate the Iowa caucuses with out-of-state people” who have no business participating in the election, unlike “people who live here, people who pay taxes here.” Writes John K. Wilson at Inside Higher Ed, “[H]er campaign is skillfully appealing to the most xenophobic prejudice of older Iowa residents: the fear of people from Illinois.” Well, Illino-Iowan relations have never quite recovered after that devastating tollbooth bombing.