Any reason why McKinley did so well here? He broke 80%; was it because of Bryan?
No, Vermont has always been such a left state.
This post makes no sense whatsoever. Are you seriously trying to make the claim that McKinley was more "left-wing" than Bryan?
I do think that McKinley's great performance can be attributed to Bryan. His populism was anathema to most of New England (all of that region swung to the GOP in 1896). Most of the Democrats here were probably Cleveland Bourbon Democrats who would have preferred McKinley to Bryan.
