"new" suburban voters

[Bandit3 the Worker]

For some reason, the new suburbs are vastly overrepresented in government.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

That might be because the new suburbs vote GOP and the GOP don't want to piss off their base.

I'm sure that's true, but the votes of the new suburbs count a lot more than other people's votes to begin with, because of higher turnout in the new suburbs.

I live in an old industrial city that had very low turnout in the recent governor election, because the county (run by new suburban types) decided to move the polling place without telling anyone beforehand. So we don't have a whole lot of power down here.

The media is also strongly biased in favor of the politics and passions of the new suburbs (their complaints to the contrary notwithstanding). They don't understand the "other" America where the rest of us live.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Is that legal?!

Supposedly it isn't, but they did it anyway.

In Kentucky, changes in polling places are supposed to be announced in the county's "newspaper of record". For this county, the "newspaper of record" is a weekly with only a small readership.

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[Bandit3 the Worker]

Rich suburbs will be among the few places to go Republican in 2004. The trend towards Republicans in rural counties is history.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

What is the basis for your opinion?

Look what happened in Kentucky. Ben Chandler did far better than expected in rural areas, yet far worse than expected in suburban areas.