This MUST be an early April Fool's day.
All they looked at was the cities with the highest liberal to conservative ratios and then decided that they MUST be smarter since they understood the “nuances of hope and change”. Whereas we slope brow conservative Neanderthals need a pamphlet to have Obooger’s wonderful plan explained in simple terms and bright pictures.
Lots of doctors in Baltimore.
Batlimore is home to Johns Hopkins (University, Medical Center, Physics Research Center, etc) a UofM campus and half a dozen other colleges, with a relatively small population. This probably causes the PHD-MD to pop. ratio to be higher than expected. It may even exceed the murder rate.
Not knowing what criteria they used... I am suprised that DC didn’t rank higher.
Couple of years ago I heard a radio interview with Alex Trabec of Jeopardy fame. (interesting fellow) He mentioned that there was an “entrance exam” to be a contestant on the show and that applicants from the DC passed at twice the national average. ( they may lack sense, but they are smart)
I said the same thing. Ditto on Oakland.