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2020 Democrats Can't Ignore Opportunities in Rural America
RealClearPolitics ^ | 12/20/19 | A.B. Stoddard

Posted on 12/20/2019 7:35:23 AM PST by workerbee

Two things can be true -- President Trump will win the rural vote next year, but if the election is decided by only thousands of votes in a few states, as it was in 2016, Democrats can win enough of them in rural areas to beat him.

For many 2016 Trump voters in rural counties, the president they love has made America great somewhere else. Schools and hospitals throughout their communities are closing; Trump's trade war, along with record flooding and drought, have devastated farmers whose bankruptcies now threaten the local economies they have long sustained; factories haven’t come back to these towns; the promised new infrastructure never came either; and no one got their health care repealed and replaced. President Trump and Republicans are most certainly not keeping doctors and jobs (or young people) in rural America.

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1 posted on 12/20/2019 7:35:23 AM PST by workerbee
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Trump won rural voters by a 2-1 margin over Hillary Clinton and his approval rating among them remains higher than his national average. They are the linchpin to his Electoral College hopes. For many of these voters the choice is a binary one, and they will remain loyal to Trump for reasons beyond their pocketbooks, no matter what. But Democrats gained among this demographic in last year’s midterms in more than 50 congressional districts.

Will the president have long enough coat tails? Between the known fraud, illegal votes, and even "real" demographic change, I worry some people are overconfident.

2 posted on 12/20/2019 7:40:33 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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So go out and sell more FREE SH*T for farmers.


3 posted on 12/20/2019 7:40:35 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Polling done on this issue indicated these voters like Trump, not the GOP. These polling made it clear while these voters did not vote for the GOP in 2018, they fulling intend to vote Trump in 2020.

So yes, Dems please waste $10 of millions trying to win this group


4 posted on 12/20/2019 7:48:05 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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" the worst economic record in 50 years"

Bill Clinton
April 16, 1992

5 posted on 12/20/2019 7:54:26 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: workerbee

Opportunities getting some day labor positions on the farms? I bet they do ignore them.


6 posted on 12/20/2019 7:57:18 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: MNJohnnie

Yeah. They are doing such a bang up job with rural voters in Virginia and California. Who writes this shit? They are coming for these people’s guns and freedoms and somebody writes this? They just impeached our president. What bullshit this is. Business as usual tripe.


7 posted on 12/20/2019 7:58:15 AM PST by Luke21
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To: workerbee

AB Stoddard is a tiresome, Trump Hating, HAG.

I can’t remember the last time she was right about something.


8 posted on 12/20/2019 7:58:37 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: workerbee

Democrat GERRYMANDERING in Rural Areas have skewed the will of the people.


9 posted on 12/20/2019 8:29:57 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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so, in other words, Trump is responsible for the flooding and the devastation, as if he caused it himself. It is giving the power of God to a man. These people are blaspheming God, really. God is judging America, trying to get our attention to repent, but God forbid anybody state that!


10 posted on 12/20/2019 8:48:46 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: workerbee

But none of them has a prayer in rural America.


11 posted on 12/20/2019 9:10:16 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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A.B.Stoddard ===Baghdad Juan Williams


12 posted on 12/20/2019 9:50:58 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: workerbee

An opportunity to get their azz kicked.


13 posted on 12/20/2019 9:56:06 AM PST by The Toll
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