Who won Norman, Oklahoma?

[Reginald]

DRA says McCain won it 52-48. This isn't perfect because the precinct boundaries don't line up exactly with city limits, but it's close enough to be sure that Obama didn't win:



This is really only an effect of, as you can see, Norman's boundary being rather extensive. It not only includes the "denser" area around the university, but the 90s-style subdivisions west of I-35 as well as rural-ish land around Lake Thunderbird (having control over the lake was basically the only reason Norman annexed almost all the way out to the county line). So essentially in this case, the Democratic bent of your typical college town is offset by its surroundings:



Romney won by a similar margin. IIRC, the Democratic precincts swung more D, and the precincts out east swung more R. 

[Reginald]

...is the University of Oklahoma any more conservative than, say, the University of Kansas in Lawrence (which is pretty liberal city)?

Oh definitely.



The precincts that include OU went about 60% Obama, while those that include KU were more like 75%. I'm really not at all qualified to explain why specifically there's such a difference. One thing I can say is that some of OU's most popular programs relate to the oil and gas industry (geology, petroleum engineering, "energy management"). Lawrence also has more of a "college town" reputation than Norman does, and that has its own pull factors for certain people. I'd imagine KU being more Midwestern has to come into play as well.

All that is to say that (inner) Norman definitely isn't Lawrence, but it's not exactly Stillwater or College Station or the-rest-of-Oklahoma either.