Good thing that JBE pulled through, but those rural 2015 -> 2019 trends do not bode well for a far-left candidate like Warren or Sanders next year.
Obama was not wrong yesterday:
It needs more of a centrist, or Trump wins again powered by these rural voters.
Pretty much any Democrat is going to get clobbered in the rural areas, and is going to rely on the cities/suburbs to win. This idea that "swing voters" care about ideology, or that a large number of Republicans and "moderates" will vote for Biden with a spring in their step but flock to Trump if Warren is the nominee (while Democratic/progressive turnout isn't stronger for Warren) is ludicrous. Democrats win by being authentic and standing by their principles, not simply being "moderate."
Show me at least one "real progressive" Democrat winning statewide in Louisiana. Or Mississippi. Or Alabama. Idiocy.
Smoltchanov is correct here ...
While the 2019 elections don’t mean a lot for 2020, there’s still some trends that are worrying about the continued urban-rural divide, which seems to deepen.
It’s concerning to me that while for us Austrians/Europeans it is pretty common sense to have a well-functioning single-payer health care system, such a radical change like Warren/Sanders are proposing would overburden much of the US electorate next year.
Americans do not want these big changes in their system and would react allergically at the polls.
That’s why a presidential candidate like Pete Buttigieg is needed with his Medicare for all who want it plan.
