If Dems could just pull in 3 to 5% more in rural areas we would be invincible

[BlueWI]

62. I did read your whole post.

Did you read all of mine?

In some of your posts the importance of strengthening white voter support for Democrats is minimized, or described as a trade-off compared to black voters, with some disparagment of the voters who live in so-called Trump Country.

In this thread, I asserted the importance of rural voters of color (a big voting block in the states that are potentially becoming purple, in the South and elsewhere). Tammy Baldwin and Bernie Sanders have recently campaigned together in Wisconsin, where we have all these factors of rural voters of color (limited past outreach to Native American, Hmong American, and Latino voters) and rural white voters who turned out bigger for Sanders than for Clinton. If Wisconsin at least is going to return to the Democratic column, the 2016 lessons about voter demographics and turnout need to be heeded.

The key to victory in 2018 is to recognize that each state has a different demographic mix, but no block can be ignored or minimized. The national, state, and local races are all too important, and Democratic outreach strategies have made the mistake in the past of not taking each block seriously enough. That's the disagreement I have with some of your posts, when assertions are made about the importance of one voting block versus another. The 50%+1 strategy for narrow wins in national elections needs to be replaced by a new version of the 50-state strategy, and that's what the DNC (including Bernie Sanders) is working to accomplish. Clearly to me at least, this is a better approach than prioritizing one demographic at the expense of another.