If he is playing electoral roulette with the one-time bankable constituency of students, he is also hopeful of picking up voters "abandoned" by Labour in the north, where the Lib Dems are second to Labour in 52 constituencies.
Unlike Newark's Rutgers campus, which played an important role in anchoring that city through its own tough times, Camden, which has a total population of about 80,000, has never had a large, captive constituency of students to act as a buffer against middle-class flight.
Our study has helped to highlight the current demand for knowledge on global health from a wide constituency of medical students.
Responsibilities typically include fund-raising, establishing and maintaining connections with local government and balancing a number of constituencies like students, parents and alumni.
Lib Dem MPs such as Greg Mulholland in Leeds and John Leech in Manchester, with high numbers of students in their constituencies, will particularly be hoping so.
Assuming there has been a three-way split, they will, of course, be doing so safe in the knowledge that the measure will pass, and that they won't be damaging the coalition, only because some of their colleagues – including those, like Clegg himself, who have considerable numbers of students in their constituency – are prepared to go into the opposite lobby.
But Wright believes the votes of those students who are "missing" will be broadly made up for by the votes of students who will be in the constituency because that is where their parents live.
The votes of students could prove decisive in several key constituencies in Wales, the NUS has claimed.
"If maintained to next year's general election, the Liberal Democrats are likely to do noticeably worse in constituencies with large numbers of student voters".
The union plans to raise petitions in constituencies with high numbers of student voters, warning MPs that they face losing their seat if they break their word on fees.
