Reply #28: Growing up on a farm myself, my take. [View All]

[newportdadde]

Well I grew up in rural Missouri, south of KC. To give you an idea of how rural, I'm only 28 but we had a 'party' phone line up till I was 20 :eyes:. I'm sure many don't even know what that means :). My family probably was atypical though, we didn't do church etc and both my parents are Democratic supporters.

Here are my thoughts on how to reach those voters. The first is media, there is very very poor choice of media in rural America. You basically have your local paper, maybe a 'big city' paper like the Kansas City Star for us, then you have radio and regular broadcast news.. no cable.

Radio is the kicker here. For instance we had 4 tractors, all of which just had AM radio. My options growing up was Dr Laura, Rush or a Rush clone, sports radio.. and the farm report. We need to get AAR out there in more cities broadcasting. Here in KC for instance we have nothing but right wing hate radio on the AM dial for talk options.

We need a grass roots campaign were rural folks actually meetup. The first is church, the second would be any kind of farm auction cattle sale etc.. of course the problem here is this is private property so I'm not sure how a political message would go over.

Another thing I want to define rural here. I'm talking about people who actually farm with my above comments. Anyone else, the 'city folks' are couples who make 100k + together and now move out into the country and buy 40 acres and build a 250k house.

Farmers don't like these people either because they destroy land prices for those who actually want to farm but there are more and more of these people around, especially over the last 10 years they have just exploded during the 90s. They killed my home town. These people are all about $ and taxes thats why they are going Red and I'm not sure what we can do about those people.