How can Dems win rural voters?

[Crumpets]

Rural voters are not one single demographic, and Democrats are already winning and at least competitive in many parts of rural America. Their problem is less one of outreach to rural voters and more one of outreach to specifically rural white voters in the Midwest and South. And there aren't a lot of ways to specifically pander to those groups that won't cost them elsewhere. As Obama showed, it can be done, but it really needs the correct national environment to be in place already and an incumbent Republican who overperforms in those areas running for re-election was never going to be that.