Scarborough: Ohio election shows GOP becoming a ‘rural party’(Is this a bad thing?)

The Hill ^ | 08/08/18 | John Bowden

[Cinnamontea]

In the language of the Left, "rural" is supposed to be an insult. And they wonder why we call them elitists.

[yesthatjallen]

And I consider ‘elite’ a slur. Elites don’t hear the slur.

[vespa300]

A rural party. As opposed to what......a San Francisco poopy street party? Los Angeles homeless street party?

Rural party sounds pretty good to me. No stink.

[EdnaMode]

That’s excellent.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I really don’t think suburbanites who work in cities are all that influenced by radical leftist Trump Haters there. They moved out to the suburbs for a reason.

[FreeReign]

Looking at the percentages for Ohio CD12 very quickly, I see that Balderson in 2018 performed similar to Trump in 2016. And Tiberi in 2016 outperformed Trump in 2016 and Balderson in 2018.

So I'm not sure Trump is losing ground. It appears that the non Trump 2016 Tiberi voters, voted against Balderson.

[TomGuy]

Hey, Joe,

That red and blue map from 2016 should be a BIG clue that much of rural America is red.

[ScottinVA]

“Scarborough:”

Stopped reading right there.

[maine-iac7]

The good news is that as technology permits, people are leaving the cities for the rural areas. It’s been going on for decades, but is slowly increasing as working from home becomes a reality for an ever-increasing part of the population.

I wonder if God isn't making it possible for conservatives trapped in cities to move out and still make a living - out of their own home...like 86% of the people did less than a hundred years ago.

That leaves the majority if libs/commies clinging to the cities - herd mentality.

The big dem-libs cities are located in places where such things as an earthquake, a major hurricane, a tsunami, etc, could cripple them - even a solar flare or EMP that knocks out power - and increases crime exponentially at night - no trucks with food rolling in... While the country folk, as always in times of such, can make it. For the most part. they'll survive. For example, I have my own well water, wood stove (heat/cook) canned, etc, goods from the garden and farmers all around... Remember the admonition about keeping your lamps full and wicks trimmed. Maybe God will say:"Enough!" this is His covenant country - He will nt see it destroyed.

[maine-iac7]

Too bad we’re not becoming a rural nation.

Actually, Jefferson proposed this. He wanted to see the country developed as an agrarian country - supplying the food for the world while we bought manufactured/big city goods from Europe ... because he recognized that big cities breed crime and corruption...