re: #386 freetoken

I’m the reverse case: raised in metro New York and then moved to fly-over land after college. I agree with your summation. The three Dems are all urban-oriented, where their voting base is for the most part. But to capture the hearts and minds of the rural voters, they’re going to have to admit the rural voters are there and address their concerns. Sarah Palin was a nasty, vindictive candidate, but her remarks about “real America” resonated with people who view urban Democrats as snooty, ivory-tower types who consider country folks as ignorant rubes and hicks. Whoever wins the nomination is going to have to dispel those feelings somehow, because the GOP winner is for sure going to pull a Palin and tell those rural voters the Democrat hates them.