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In these increasingly anxious times, rural Americans won’t be as focused on the personality appeals that worked for George W. Bush in the last two elections, says Peter Francia, an East Carolina University political science professor who analyzes rural voting patterns.

The Center for Rural Strategies has released a poll showing the Republican presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin picking up support over Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But McCain has less of a lead this September than President George W. Bush did over John Kerry at around the same time in [...]

Bill Bishop of the Center for Rural Strategies has crunched the county numbers for the Iowa Caucuses to give us a picture of rural and urban trends Thursday, useful information for campaigns as they move on to future battegrounds.
Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses last night. That’s what they have [...]

CARROLL — The Whitesburg, Kentucky-based national Center for Rural Strategies this afternoon interviewed Iowa Independent fellow Douglas Burns about the impact of the war in Iraq on rural America, which is doing a disproportionate share of the fighting and dying.
Officials at the center had read Burns’ recent Iowa Independent piece “What Barack Obama gets about [...]