Tuesday 25 September 2012
It wasn’t a stretch for the Mad Men writers to put Don Draper and his advertising-agency colleagues to work in the 1960 presidential campaign for dour Richard Nixon, not dynamic John F. Kennedy. In those days, most professionals—like the hard-drinking, chain-smoking executives at the fictional Sterling Cooper—voted reliably Republican. But like the mores of Madison Avenue, the politics of professionals have changed. Today, college-educated professionals (especially women) are central to the modern Democratic electoral coalition. Ronald Brownstein ☀
