<p>To answer the OP’s question</p>
<p>I visited Swarthmore back in 2009 on a beautiful fall day with D1. </p>
<p>I think that I’m a pretty liberal guy, perhaps on the Clinton end of the spectrum (I hope I can say that). </p>
<p>At no other school did I get such a strong sense of extreme left wing group-think that made me feel like an extreme conservative. It was pretty in your face and uncomfortable. I wondered who there was to argue with, and I thought that graduates there would not help tone down the vitriol in our nation’s current political discourse. It didn’t bother my D any, but personally I’m glad she went to a school with a more balanced population where she got to meet intelligent people with differing points of view. She’s still very liberal. </p>