NPR: Poll: Rural Voters Not Reliably Republican in 2008

[featherman]

" Overwhelming support in the nation's least populated counties was key to Republican victories in the last two presidential elections. But a new bipartisan survey indicates rural voters are not so reliably Republican in 2008.

The poll indicates that Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, cannot count on rural voters to provide him a winning margin in the November presidential election. Double-digit margins in places beyond cities and suburbs are credited with giving President George W. Bush his margins of victory in 2000 and 2004"

more at the link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90555893

[Kolesar]

When a soldier comes home dead, the whole town talks about it

The gops cannot manipulate that patriotism b/s anymore. It does not sell because it broke under strain has snapped back at them.

[enough]

1. NPR still thinks Bush had a "victory" in the election in 2000.

[featherman]

4. good point... very careless since they were discussing "margin of victory"

[XOKCowboy]

2. Boy they're screwed this year aren't they?

A poll all the news outlets are quoting this morning says that rural voters don't like Obama either.

What's a rural voter to do?

OK so this was a little tongue in cheek. I heard some very racist talk about this election when I went back to OK a couple of months ago. Those people had no problem voting for McCain because he was white and not Hillary. These are Democrats or Bush haters also.

[seabeyond]

3. panhandle of texas i have republicans voting for obama and really dislike mccain

but then they are typically the educated white repug that i have seen in this area.

there are a lot of republicans, rural, poor, rich, educated and not that are NOT bigots. on edit: and a lot that ARE bigots. just dont want to feed ALL repugs = bigots. especially when it isnt true