NY Times highlights the urban-rural divide

In most of the big battleground states, the battle today will be a classic urban-rural match-up.

Democratic cities in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia will attempt to overwhelm the Republican votes of rural folks in those states.

In a great, short video on the Times home page, reporter Ford Fessenden lays out this metro-homelander clash in stark detail.

http://nytimes.com/

Will urbanites prevail in 2008 — or will this be a repeat of 2000 and 2004, when baffled left-leaning metros find themselves trumped by unified small-town conservatives?