{"id":152,"date":"2008-10-20T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/20\/the-awesome-power-of-rural-voters\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:34:00","slug":"the-awesome-power-of-rural-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/20\/the-awesome-power-of-rural-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"The awesome power of rural voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new chart compiled by Bill Bishop and Tim Murphy captures brilliantly the lingering power of rural and exurban voters.<\/p>\n<p>The chart looks at the 2004 presidential elections and shows that unified voting and massive turnout in rural communities can swamp more divided urban and suburban communities.<\/p>\n<p>Read in full here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyyonder.com\/past-prologue-looking-2004-rural-urban-and-exurban-vote\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.dailyyonder.com\/past-prologue-looking-2004-rural-urban-and-exurban-vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>In Ohio, the 29% of residents who live in small towns and exurbs racked up an astonishing 311,000 net Republican votes for George Bush.  (That&#8217;s the margin of Bush over Kerry.)<\/p>\n<p>Urban communities &#8212; which make up 70% of Ohio&#8217;s population &#8212; went Democratic, but by narrower margins, chipping in a net tally for John Kerry of only 182,000 votes. <\/p>\n<p>In Virginia, Bush and Kerry effectively tied in urban communities (Bush eked out a 3,000 vote advantage).<\/p>\n<p>But the Republican blew Kerry away in low population counties, racking up net vote advantages of more than 250,000.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the game played out in the opposite direction.  The 15% of New Yorkers who live in rural and exurban communities gave a net advantage of 90,000 votes to Bush.<\/p>\n<p>But they were overwhelmed by Democratic urban voters, who netted 1.4 million votes for Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Is past prologue?  Will rural voters once again sweep aside urban-based Democrats in key states such as Colorado, Ohio, and Virginia?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll know in two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chart compiled by Bill Bishop and Tim Murphy captures brilliantly the lingering power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}