Mountain West- East:Colorado State University:Fort Collins, Colorado:Located barely an hour's drive South from Laramie, Wyoming is the Liberal Democratic stronghold of Fort Collins (Although most in Wyoming consider Laramie to be the Liberal stronghold of Wyoming).
Although it doesn't have the Liberal cachet of University of Colorado- Boulder, it's still a pretty decent sized school, and is obviously a major part of the Community of Fort Collins, along with all the Tech companies that are major employers in their own right within FTC...
Dorm/Campus Vote:Total Votes: 3,277--- 2,176 HRC (66.4% Dem), 720 DJT (22.0% Rep), 381 Others (11.6%)
+ 44.4% Dem
Off-Campus Undergrad Precincts:Total Vote: 5,727--- 3,601 HRC (62.9% Dem), 1,381 DJT (24.1% Rep), 745 Others (13.0%)
+ 38.8% Dem
Combined Dorm/Off-Campus Vote:Total Vote: 9,004--- 5,777 HRC (64.2% Dem), 2,101 DJT (23.3% Rep), 1,126 Others (12.5%)
+ 40.9% Dem
Notes/Comments:1.) Dorm precincts look pretty clear and include one precinct that is completely located within the campus of CSU going (67-21 Dem) and the precinct that is partially included but encompasses a significant chunk of dorms going slightly more Republican.
2.) Off-Campus precincts I had to be careful since although we have a large belt running West of Campus of clearly Undergrad off-campus housing, and to a lesser extent to the North and South of Campus, some of these precincts also included a significant amount of Non-Undergrads, with huge concentrations of voters aged 18-24 in larger apartment complexes mixed in.
I basically excluded those precincts where it appeared that despite the concentration of Undergrad voters, there was a significant population of Non-Undergrads located within the same precincts.
3.) Thus far it looks like CSU is the least Republican University within the Mountain West- East Conference, and additionally voted to the Left of the City as a whole.
In fact, it looks like Trump performed better at the University of Iowa (!!!) than at Colorado State University, not to mention achieving the same percentage of the vote share in Rutgers (!!!).
4.) Again, we see a high share of 3rd Party voting, which is a bit different than some of the "elite" Universities of the West Coast, Midwest, and Central Atlantic region, with Gary Johnson winning roughly 2:1 against the Green Party candidate, with a small smattering of votes for McMullin thrown into the mix as well.
The Trump brand of Republicanism, apparently did not resonate well at all at CSU, which is definitely not a good sign for the future of the Party in Colorado, considering the very different student base when contrasted against UC-Boulder for example.
Next stop to consolidate the City results for Albuquerque (One of the few cities where I did not perform that exercise because of extreme frustration with precinct coding).
NcLib, I did not forget about your request for one of the last Flagship University Cities you have left on your list for consolidated precinct results.
Then we simply need to crunch the precinct numbers for the University of New Mexico and the Air Force academy in Colorado springs, and we'll be done with the Mountain West- East data.
