I think we will still win this election, but one thing is very clear already

[mtnsnake]

If we don't find a way to appeal to rural voters very fucking soon, we will be in deep shit for future elections to come.

[herding cats]

1. I live amongst them.

They're pretty fucking nuts. I've not a clue how to break into their cult mentality.

[SoCalNative]

2. Sorry

fuck rural voters. Their vote counts more than mine thanks to our antiquated system. Maybe I'll care about them when that isn't the case.

[Jspur]

3. I don't think we are going to win them over due to their beliefs

being radically different than the Democratic party.

[Claustrum]

6. If you can have actual plan that will help their district/area, they will go our way.

Ignoring them isn't the way to go. It's a hard path to go and it will take years to deprogram them. But if we can show actual result to them, they will come back. Telling them to go to college for the green job isn't going to do it. You have to actually bring the jobs in.

[mtnsnake]

8. +10,000

thank you.

[IvanMascervesa]

4. It's going to take migration

Get out of the cities, work remotely, jobs will follow...maybe not in my lifetime though

[LakeVermilion]

5. When the Supreme Court kills Obamacare,

they will be flocking to big cities for their health care. In fact, many may be moving to the cities when their farms move into bankruptcy.

They are clinging to a life that is changing.

[NickB79]

7. It's the gun issue

Always has been. I can count a dozen fellow Teamsters at my job who refused to vote for Biden because of his gun control proposals.

[mtnsnake]

9. Yes, it is. It's also taxes and the perception that Democrats always raise theirs.

[roamer65]

10. No the rural areas are depopulating.

[JI7]

11. Actually conservative Hispanics are more likely to vote democratic

But they get scared of socialism easily.

So Democrats have to really fight that.

[jcmaine72]

12. Sorry, but...

Screw them!

Short of burning crosses and mass-deporting all non-white immigrants, I don't see anyway we could ever possibly appeal to theese drool-dripping, cow-tipping, spray-cheese-eating Cro-Magnons.

[qazplm135]

13. I mean we put up an old white moderate centrist

what else can we do to "appeal to them?"

Run a Republican?

I think the problem is we are not meeting what we need to do with people of color.

Our next candidate needs to be a person of color.

[UTUSN]

14. "appeal to (rural) voters" - how? --------poster/above nailed it, how communicate with cults?

[mtnsnake]

18. I believe we can figure out a way

After all, we are supposed to be the intelligent ones, right?

[UTUSN]

19. That's the problem: They see "intelligence" as patronizing/condescending to them.

It's the culture war thing. We are not bound by fundamentalist religion, by hidebound boxed-in thinking. They see this as THREATENING.

And they have zero compunction to meet anybody halfway. We're in the bind of doing all of the reaching out and accomodating, which they reject anyway.

[gollygee]

15. Trump has a cult of personality going with them, and a lot of them are racist af

I don't see how to do anything there.

[spicysista]

16. I'm more concerned about voter suppression.

Ballots being thrown out, long lines, and trash voting machines are important tools being used against us. Where would we begin to compromise with folk who support a person such as tRump? What are the things about him and his agenda in which we could adopt to get/win their favor?
No, I'm more interested in expanding the souls to the polls efforts, advocating for automatic voter registration, and appealing to those who find common cause with the democratic platform, but whom do not seem to believe in the benefits of voting.
Anyways, lots of mail in ballots to count in all states. I've linked a few articles talking about the issues, from my perspective. Stay up, mtnsnake.

Mail- in ballot shenanigans:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/03/gop-sues-to-throw-out-corrected-mail-in-ballots-in-pennsylvania-montgomery-county/?sh=21c488e7940f

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-order-postal-service-sweep-facilities-undelivered-mail-in-ballots

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/11/03/georgias-absentee-ballot-count-delayed-by-burst-pipe-but-officials-say-results-wont-be-impacted/


Voting machines:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/election-day-2020-voters-battle-lines-malfunctioning-machines-misinformation-some-n1245963

https://www.wsaz.com/2020/10/29/voting-machine-problems-reported-in-cabell-county-days-before-election/

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/carminesabia/2020/11/03/pennsylvania-voter-sounds-the-alarm-over-delayed-poll-opening-voting-machine-issues-n1120004

[hamsterjill]

17. I think we need to stop giving them a pass.

For example, I live in San Antonio. All of the surrounding rural Trump idiots come HERE when their small, rural hospitals can’t treat them. They take up OUR hospital beds. Their COVID patients are brought here at the same time they are preaching that COVID doesn’t exist.

I think they need to be self-reliant and stop depending on urban areas for health care, education, etc.