• HelixDab
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    21 year ago

    Some of the concerns of the rural voters do concern, or should concern, urban voters. Farm subsidies, for instance; they stabilize prices so that you don’t see wild swings in commodities. It also ensures that more farmers are able to stay farmers when prices crash, which in turn means that Americans get to keep eating. Farm subsidies aren’t usually in contention, except when you’ve got someone with a bug up their ass about a ‘strategic cheese stockpile’ or some such.

    • partial_accumen
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      21 year ago

      Farm subsidies aren’t usually in contention, except when you’ve got someone with a bug up their ass about a ‘strategic cheese stockpile’ or some such.

      I don’t disagree with your statements. I, as a suburban vote, also don’t want rural voter’s needs dismissed. The challenge to OP’s statements is exclusively focusing on rural voter’s needs to the exclusion of urban and suburban voters.