Detroit was named the "most liberal" city in the state by a recent analysis and poll. It beat out Ann Arbor, New York, Boston, and other liberal bastions.
The poll is wrong.
Why?
The company that did the analysis, the Bay Area Center for Voting Research in California, or BACVR, is refusing to disclose their methodology in tracking voting patterns in 237 U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more.
It looks and sounds like they used voting patterns alone in making their pronouncement.
Looking at voting patterns only gives part of the picture. What about the opinions of those who don't vote or didn't vote in the range of elections analyzed by the BACVR? How far back did they go? Why did they limit their search to cities with populations of 100,000 or more?
Detroit is not the most liberal city in the nation; it's not even close.
Berkley CA, San Francisco CA, and Ann Arbor, MI, are three more likely choices due to high student populations than Detroit is.
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