josh daniels makes sadly fallacious arguments for a berkeley law student.

It could easily be the case that the voters he is analyzing are voters who support INDEPENDENTS (the grad student candidate included) and not necessarily grad student voters.

Independent supports may have been more likely to refuse the fee for a lot of reasons.

Also (and related) it should be noted that one could make a similar argument that a particular group of undergraduates caused the bill to fail. Say Republican students mostly voted against the fee...

In that case the grad students could be totally unimportant; just convince the republicans to like a fee increase and then you can pass it despite the grads.

In any case, Daniels needs a hell of a lot more evidence to back up his clearly political claim.