Largely in part because national Democrat organizations have focused on urban areas where they're certain to win. This is investing completely upside down! You invest in areas where the party is weak. Spending in areas you're certain to win is pissing $ away, not investing!

There are more people within 8 miles of my house than there are in the 50 smallest Missouri counties combined. Democratic organizations invest in urban areas because that's where the people are. The only difference between Missouri and blue states is that our urban turnout actually sucks.

The problem is that voters in rural areas are actually worth more than urban areas. Look at Wyoming, with a population of about 600,000 people. Their Senators are as powerful in Congress as those of California with a population of approximately 40,000,000. So, yeah, we need to do better!

We can't just write off rural voters because "urban areas are where the people are." Cynthia Lummis (R, WY), is up for re-election in 2026. Democrats aren't even *trying* to unseat her. At the moment, her only opponent is Jimmy Skovgard, who is also a Republican.

We can write off shithole states like Wyoming because we have limited resources and setting said resources on fire trying to find the six persuadable Dem voters who live among the subhuman redneck hordes of Wyoming so that Lummis wins by 65 and not 70 is insane.

Are you shitting me? That's precisely the attitude that's left rural voters with no choice but to sit out elections, or vote for Republicans. We raised a billion dollars to not elect Harris, and we're getting our asses kicked by the administration of #Felon47 because we neglected down-ballot races

and handed tRump a compliant House. A strategic investment in rural voters can pay huge dividends. Remember that it was only 25 years ago that most rural voters were Democrats. Democrats focus on cities paid huge dividends in urban areas, but cost them big in rural areas.

Yeah, I’m sure we would have won the House if we had taken money we spent getting Derek Tran and Adam Gray above water on a failed attempt at flipping WY-AL or whatever.

I'm not talking about the three months leading up to an election. I'm talking about making sustained, multi-cycle efforts to build up Democrats in rural areas. It's been done before, and it can be done again.

I don’t know about Wyoming but in Mississippi, 747,744 voted for Trump. 904,453 didn’t vote. The majority isn’t in the cult but Republicans control the media. If you give people hope for a better life and drown out the lies and derision from the Epstein party, it wouldn’t be that hard to flip.

And Ironically, nearly 40% of voters in Mississippi are Black. When Democrats make their case for why they're policies are better than those of the Republican Party, Black voters choose Democrats. We *have* to do better getting the message to indifferent and low-propensity voters in rural areas!

Sorry, "their policies". I really cannot type for shit today!

Suburban areas are where attainable voters are at. You're going to flip more there by investing than the handful of rural voters that aren't already full on MAGAs

Flipping suburban voters isn't going to solve anything long term. Rural voters are seeing their hospitals closed, and federal funding cut. Most won't turn against #Felon47, but they can be flipped against Republican candidates. #Felon47 isn't on the ballot again.

Very few will vote anything other than R and those who will leave. Suburbs are growth areas that are getting more diverse while small towns are getting smaller or maintaining their populations at best. The former is the smarter investment

Rural areas losing their population is even more reason to work for those votes as their Senators have the same power from fewer voters.

The less informed tend to vote Republican. We need to make them all highly informed.

You couldn't have picked a worse example. Wyoming may be the most heavily urbanized state in the country. 30% of the entire state's population lives in Cheyanne. 80% of the population lives in the 9 largest cities. The rural population of Wyoming is miniscule.

Are you kidding me? Even the cities in WY are rural by most measures. Cheyenne is 84 square kilometers and has a population of 65k. That's barely a town! San Jose, CA has a million people in about 460 square kilometers.

Do a little math and Cheyenne has about 800 people per square kilometer, while San Jose has about 2,200 people per square kilometer.