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On the homefront, Democrats are talking about how to reconnect with rural 
voters.
It's an important conversation, as much about the decline in the party's 
fortunes
can be traced to the fact that people who live in small towns provided 
President
Bush with overwhelming support in 2004. 

As John Nichols writes in The Online Beat, "If Democrats want to improve their
fortunes in the elections of 2006 and 2008, they should learn to speak once 
more
for the interests of rural Americans. And the best place to start doing so is 
by
challenging the pro-free trade, pro-corporate agribusiness policies of new 
Bush
nominee Mike Johanns--and by speaking, bluntly, about the threat those 
policies
pose to working farmers and rural America."
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2052

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