Presidential elections in Cambridge-Massachusetts

[buritobr]

In an old thread, we talked about when was the last time in which the academic community was more republican than the national result.
The results in Cambridge-MA can offer a hint about this question, since we can expect that many professors, students and employees of the Harvard University and MIT live there.
Here we can see the results

A democratic stronghold. Even in 1952 and 1956, when Eisenhower won by big margin in Massachusetts, Stevenson won Cambridge.

[King of Kensington]

Adlai Stevenson was known as the "egghead" candidate.

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

John Anderson did well

[TheReckoning]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

[Mr. Smith]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

And back to Taft too.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

And back to Taft too.

3/4 Democratic nominees, over nine elections, won Cambridge, except for William Jennings Bryan.

[Mr. Smith]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

And back to Taft too.

3/4 Democratic nominees, over nine elections, won Cambridge, except for William Jennings Bryan.

That or they just really didn't like Teddy Roosevelt.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

The New York Times endorsed Parker in 1904 after having endorsed Palmer in 1896 and McKinley in 1900. I wonder if there was a hostility to TR among cultural and academic elites.

[TDAS04]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

The New York Times endorsed Parker in 1904 after having endorsed Palmer in 1896 and McKinley in 1900. I wonder if there was a hostility to TR among cultural and academic elites.

It was probably more of a hostility towards Bryan.  Parker was an ordinary Bourbon Democrat, while Bryan was seen as a raging populist with hostility towards the East.

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

Rather appropriate (and maybe also somewhat ironic) that Al Smith began the current long unbroken run for the Democrats.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Rather appropriate (and maybe also somewhat ironic) that Al Smith began the current long unbroken run for the Democrats.

Doesn’t surprise me that much tbh. I think that by 28 prohibition being a failure was already obvious to most socially liberal academic types, even ones who may have supported it originally.

[Alcibiades]

Worth noting that Cambridge traditionally had a large working-class ‘white ethnic’ population, who were obviously strongly Democratic, in addition to the academic community, which is probably the decisive factor in why its Dem-voting streak goes so far back. In fact this guy was the economically centre-left but socially conservative Italian-American mayor of the city during the 70s and 80s, who often exploited resentment from locals towards Harvard during his campaigns.

[Podgy the Bear]

Interesting how they voted for McKinley but switched to Parker.

The New York Times endorsed Parker in 1904 after having endorsed Palmer in 1896 and McKinley in 1900. I wonder if there was a hostility to TR among cultural and academic elites.

Interesting since TR was a Harvard graduate!