"Nobody Really Cares": The Rural Voter Problem

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6. I was at civic club meeting yesterday

by nature a pretty heavy R group of people (all VERY socially conscious and good people).

The discussion turned to tax credit programs that had stimulated economic development in our community and state at large, and how it looked as though the "current administration" might change things and they likely won't be available moving forward.

No one even flinched, just nodded matter of factly. Same people who were groaning about "how hard it is to get a mortgage now!" (even though none of them are even remotely buying new homes at this point) after legislation was implemented to prevent bad mortgages after the Great Recession

We had a meeting the day after we got OBL. These are some PROUD AMERICAN types, we sing the national anthem and do the pledge every meeting. We were well into the meeting and it was like someone died, no one even mentioned getting OBL while we were eating and talking. So, at happy dollars, I mentioned OBL. A very short, tepid clap only because they knew they had to, and they HATED it.

I love these people, again really good people, but the R thing runs DEEP.