FYI, we are not allowed to post full text from the NYT.
No, actually stupid smokescreen issues play better in large metropolitan areas than in the country.
But hey, I could be wrong. After all, who knows more about the rural mentality than the staff of the New York Times...?
Mr. Kerry is not getting off to a very informed start in pursuing rural American voters . . . my wife was watching network news this evening and saw a sequence featuring Kerry on some Midwestern farm. She said he was asking the farmer how many CALVES he milked (!) (For those Freepers who are not into farming, one doesn't milk calves -- cattle, like other mammals, don't give milk until they bear young.)