The claim that 60K students at PSU vote Democrat is preposterous and false. The claim that a county almost equally split between Democrats and Republicans can change the outcome of any adjoining district in mathematically ridiculous.
OK, here’s why I think that:
46,606 undergrads (currently) https://admissions.psu.edu/pennstate/campuses/?campusCode=UP - they only vote in presidential elections
6100 graduate students http://gradschool.psu.edu/prospective-students/statistics/ Apparently grad school enrollments declined as World Campus enrollment increased.
That’s 52,706. I was generically including adjunct profs, but was unable to find a hard number on those.
Not trying to give you a hard time, I just look as those numbers a lot as I’ve watched the town change over my lifetime. Some changes for the better, some for the worse ;-)
They vote in Ferguson Twp, Patton Twp, College twp. Not too many in Harris twp. The 10,000 International students, who shouldn’t vote, do bring family members, and too many do vote.