Dorms precincts vs. off campus student housing precincts

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Has anyone else noticed that the latter tend to be far more Democratic? I observed this in Mankato and found something rather interesting on this map:

http://www.dfl4cd.org/finder/zips/precincts/maps/Hennepin/Mpls_Election_Precinct.pdf

2-11 was Bush's second best precinct in Minneapolis (the first btw is 7-10, the only one he won which contains an Assemblies of God university). 2-4 was his fourth best. (His being 12-7, and why should be obvious from the map.)

Hardly the case with the off-campus precincts though. Apparently College Republicans are more likely to drop out, or there's some effect from living on your own and working instead of just having your parents pay for you and your housing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It might also reflect turnout and the existence of non-students in the area. Interesting though.

[Torie]

The independent living arrangements precincts adjacent to land owned by the college/university  itself are "poisoned"  by grad students and hangers on.  Heck Ford carried the dorms at the U of M back in 1976, and rather easily.

[Sbane]

Here at UCI it is totally different. Our dorms vote like 5-1 democrat but the areas surrounding the university is only like 2-1 democrat. It is because those areas are "poisoned" by random OC conservatives. I would think that is the case almost everywhere though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Here at UCI it is totally different. Our dorms vote like 5-1 democrat but the areas surrounding the university is only like 2-1 democrat. It is because those areas are "poisoned" by random OC conservatives. I would think that is the case almost everywhere though.

Not in non-conservative areas.