Democrats: Give rural voters a reason to trust and support the party

[moriah]

12. Not really. The rural poor have logical reasons to vote for us.

Appeal to their logic and do what you can. There's no need to pull to the middle to do that.

Doug Jones in particular was a great example of a person who had led a lifetime of service to run. Yes, with Alabama's large rural African-American population that helped him, but the rural poor aren't all out in the country because they are rednecks.

In my state, Arkansas, we have many areas that are both rural and liberal, even if they're near areas that are rural and not. But they're all poor, all their kids are still on lunches (why else would they complain about school lunches, if they could send a bagged one instead of having to pay?), all their kids are going to lose health care, etc.

If they won't buy those rational arguments don't waste the time, but it's never a waste to give the rational argument that Trump is NOT going to use lube when he implements his policies against the poor, and it's going to affect them.

But if nothing else, for FSM's sake, we must run SOME candidate in every district for 2018. In 2016 most of our Republican congresscritters ran unopposed except by Libertarians. It wasn't uncommon for Republicans to, in the past, be the ones not fielding candidates in those districts. We can get some of them back with logic and self-interest.

And we see that high Dem turnout even in Red counties where we may only get 25-35% eats away at the numbers the Republicans have to manage to get in urban areas to break even. I knew it was going to Jones because of the rural Red counties having higher than average Dem votes.