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The left looks at how they can recapture the rural vote

August 24, 2018 Cuthbert - Arial view of the city of Cuthbert in Randolph County on Friday, August 24, 2018. An elections board in southwestern Georgia defeated a contentious proposal Friday to close seven rural voting locations before November’s election following overwhelming opposition to the idea. The precinct closure proposal received widespread criticism because it could have reduced turnout in a majority African-American county, where some voters without a car would have had to walk 10 miles to reach one of the two remaining precincts in the county. Randolph County has a 31 percent poverty rate, according to the U.S. Census. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

August 24, 2018 Cuthbert - Arial view of the city of Cuthbert in Randolph County on Friday, August 24, 2018. An elections board in southwestern Georgia defeated a contentious proposal Friday to close seven rural voting locations before November’s election following overwhelming opposition to the idea. The precinct closure proposal received widespread criticism because it could have reduced turnout in a majority African-American county, where some voters without a car would have had to walk 10 miles to reach one of the two remaining precincts in the county. Randolph County has a 31 percent poverty rate, according to the U.S. Census. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

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Nov 14, 2018

A roundup of editorials from the left.

1. Progressives point the way to recapturing the rural vote

From Washington Post: "So how can Democrats win in places where voters believe the party has written them off? According to Maxmin, they need to do more to "translate progressive values to the realities of rural America."

2. A Tool of Autocrats

From The New York Times: "top Republicans don't seem to be willing to take their chances. They'd rather win unfairly than lose fairly — which is, again, the kind of decision that autocrats make."

3. Amazon and America's Real Divide

From The American Prospect: "So as the American middle class disappears, the two groups falling perilously behind are white, rural, non-college Tumpsters, and the urban poor. It's not Amazon's business to know or care. That falls to the rest of us."

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