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FDR made it a blue bastion – now it’s Trump’s stronghold in California. Is it forever lost?

Shasta has embraced the Maga movement with gusto – can Democrats ever win back the rural, working-class voters they once relied upon? A crucial election was approaching and the country was desperate. Despite promises that economic conditions were improving, nearly a quarter of the US was out of work as voters headed to the polls in 1932. It was the…

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The Guardian· Oct 25, 1:00 PMFDR made it a blue bastion – now it’s Trump’s stronghold in California. Is it forever lost?

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'I fell for it three times': Furious Trump voters threaten to sink GOP in midtermsA slice of voters who helped put President Donald Trump back in the White House have turned on him, and some of them say Republicans will pay for it in November. According to the Washington Post's new reporting , about 1 in 5 registered voters who backed Trump in 2024, or 22 percent, now disapprove of the job he’s doing. That’s roughly 8 percent of the…

Raw Story3h agoWhole story →

Can progressives win outside of cities? A Maine House race offers a key test.The campaign in Maine’s rural 2nd District features an ideological contrast between a left-wing Democrat and a Trump-like former Republican governor.

The Christian Science Monitor7h agoWhole story →

Outrage as voting sites 'key to Democratic hopes' stay closed: reportA Democratic lawmaker sounded the alarm Friday over at least 18 rural Alaska polling places that were advertised online but hadn’t opened, all in villages the New York Times described as “key to Democratic hopes.” “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” state Sen. Bill Wielechowski wrote in a letter to Alaska election officials…

Raw Story17h agoWhole story →

N.J. bill targets highway safety around farm equipment. What drivers should knowA bill passed by the Assembly Appropriations Committee would require the state to educate drivers on safely sharing rural roads with tractors and slow-moving farm machinery.

NJ.com1d agoWhole story →

Will a progressive be able to keep Angie Craig’s district in DFL hands?Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes south Twin Cities suburbs and surrounding rural areas, has seen the state's closest U.S. House elections in recent years.

St. Paul Pioneer Press1d agoWhole story →

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‘Prairie Populists’ fight to win back rural voters long ceded to RepublicansDemocratic and independent candidates stump the US midwest and prairie states, hoping to win over Republican strongholds In this final stretch of the US midterm elections, Democrats and independents could win back communities and towns across America’s rural heartlands through a combination of resurgent “prairie populism”, local despair over the impact…

The Guardian55m agoWhole story →

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