I am a parent, with a senior at Case. I see that Case is slightly socially more conservative than East coast or west coast colleges , in that most kids live in single sex suites. Religion seems well accepted by even liberal Case students, and many students attend church. My sons friends regularly go to Catholic, Jewish and Protestant services for instance. I think the Trump situation is a little unfair as its not a “normal” Republican candidate, and with the Republican Convention police housed on Case Western’s campus last summer, that got quite a few students really unhappy. They actually moved students out of the suites up on 115th for policemen to live in their rooms, in case there were riots at the Republican Convention! Case attracts a number of conservative students in my experience
and many POLITICALLY INACTIVE students who are focused on studies. Its not a hotbed of liberalism in my visits,
and its a small scale city so the city itself is much quieter than say New York City or even Baltimore with all the activism that spills over from Washington DC. With that, Cleveland as a city votes solidly Democratic, as would be expected. The rest of Ohio is quite conservative, and Trump won in Ohio, as we know.