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How Biden and Democrats Can Win Rural Voters

An Open Letter to Joe Biden

Charles Bastille
Ruminato
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14 min readSep 13, 2020

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Hi, Joe. I hope you’re well. Thanks for being a normal person. In any other era, that would be enough for you to win this election. But America is sick right now. Mentally ill. 70 million of its people still voted for a man who cheats, lies, and steals with every breath he takes, his maskless throngs cheering him on.

The poll numbers are not that different than when Hillary ran. And you know what happened there. I don’t think I’m being particularly bold when I suggest that Democrats will lose more elections if you don’t follow the instructions in this article.

If you want to go straight to the solution because you’re busy, Joe, I’ll understand. Click or tap here to skip all the background noise.

If Rural Voters Continue to Vote the Way They Did in 2016 and 2018, Joe, Democrats are doomed.

Before we talk about the plan, let’s look at a few numbers.

Take a look at this screenshot showing how counties starting with the letter “A” in Texas voted in November, 2016. This snapshot is a fair representation of Texas’s overall rural vote:

A snapshot of how Rural Texas Voted in the November, 2016 Presidential Election
A snapshot of how Rural Texas Voted in the November, 2016 Presidential Election. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas — AND BREATHE, everybody, that’s Austin COUNTY, not the city of Austin — two very different animals.

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Charles Bastille
Ruminato

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Follow me on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/charlesbastille.bsky.social. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille