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Apart from this perhaps being from a small sample size, here’s what I’ve noted among the 18-24 year old demographic.

My 20 year old is a grad student at a university. He’s in a private U, business grad program. Lots of his classmates are conservative when it comes to politics (many are older than he is but still within the demographic)...they’re business majors, and business favors conservatives. Even his profs are picking apart O’s tax plan. So you have that group of conservative students who will vote for McCain.

Then you have the normal group of liberal arts, world peace, save the environment, indoctrinated students and those kids will probably vote for Obama.

But there’s a third portion of that demographic that are good students, but also party/hardy college students and they tend toward libertarian beliefs (they’d like to see less laws...drug laws to be specific). Those kids (and I know a few), are voting for McCain, 0 worship doesn’t appeal to them at all, too “follow the crowdish” for their liking.

So, IMHO, it would not be unreasonable to see at least a 50/50 split among that demo for McCain and Obama, possibly a 66/33 for McCain.

Reverse engineering the internals for rough calculations, I get 31.5% DEM, 30.5% GOP, and 38% IND/Other. The independent/other number is too high. I looked at the Party vs Overall breakouts.

Obviously the table has rounded numbers which makes it difficult to accurately determine the party affiliations. But just looking at the Not Sure column for the Overall and individual Party numbers, it would appear that a good number of respondants were in the IND/Other row.

A few weeks ago Obama gave a speech at my hometown of La Crosse, Wisconsin. I watched from my car during my lunch break as thousands of UW-La Crosse college students trooped from campus to see The Messiah. I saw McCain give a speech in La Crosse a week later, and there was no college stampede for McCain. I have to believe the 74-22 for McCain was a misprint.