These are largely the folks who don't rely on the 'Net for their info. They're dying out, but not fast enough to effect the change we need through demographics alone.

I read two local papers. I subscribe to one. So do many people younger than me. It is how we get our local news, which is much needed. Like many people here, we get the bulk of our info from the Internet, but still need local news.

Clinton shares more of a worldview with Boromir, obsessed with seizing power to use it in violent struggle.

(ETA And Krauthammer is more of a Grima Wormtongue.)

Krauthammer called Bernie "wild and wavy and loud."

anus. His sleazy demeanor and hooded eyeballs just give me the creeps. When he attempts a smile I feel my guts react in revulsion.

Oh, were we talking about something that he said? Frankly, I can't watch nor listen to it so I can't have any informed opinion.

Our local paper used to carry her, then, when Princess Diana was killed in the auto accident, she wrote a column saying, basically, that if she would have been home taking care of her children like she was supposed to, she wouldn't have died. So, I guess, if you're a mom, you're never ever allowed to go anywhere without your children. Shortly after that, they stopped carrying her. The woman is a piece of work.

she was awful.

I suspect this is the case all over small-town America, just as it is with AM radio.

They only hear right-wing talk radio and they're only given right-wing editorials in their local newspapers.

I've often said the red/blue divide isn't the Mason-Dixon line: it's the city/county line.

The fact is the South has more rural voters than city voters, so our states vote "red." Look at Pennsylvania. If it were not for the very large cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, that state would be red, too.

My hope is that the truth and simplicity of Bernie's message will withstand the organized attack from the establishment, and that people will understand That his election is not sufficient, but necessary to begin the transformational process that is our only chance.

Rural people are polled just as frequently as urbanites. Other than the flat out religious crazies, they're among the 85-90% of Americans who believe that everyone deserves healthcare, that fairness is.important, that the filthy rich.0001% should pay more in taxes than the struggling working and once-upon-a-time middle class, That corporations should keep jobs.in the USA and not in China, Vietnam or Indonesia. They're still the salt of the earth folks they've always been, but 40 years of constant brainwashing has all-too-often succeeded in warping how they view the world. Not all rural voters, of course, but too many of them.

I know a lot of rural salt-of-the-earth people who really have to think about it when you phrase things the way you do. Sadly, too often, however, they still fall back on the God, Gays and Guns arguments because it's all they've been told for decades.

It sounds like your local paper is giving time to both sides of the story--old-style rob-you-blind Republicans and loudmouthed shiny-object-social-issue-screaming Republicans.

starts using his name with the same loathing hiss as Hillary's, I'll know they're really afraid of him. If they eventually start ignoring Hillary to make up insulting variations of "Bernie" and rant constant filthy aspersions about his religion and politics, well...about then I'll be planning to vote for him for president.

Post from a particularly nasty little forum where this progress can be easily monitored. It's supposedly an industry forum but has very low standards and draws outsiders who appreciate a place where they can give their hostility and bigotry pretty free reign:

"In Reply to: Fuming Bernie supporters: Why is CNN deleting our - comments? "This is entertaining, bettr than the Sunnis and Shi'ites going - after ech other! I might have to go over to DU and stir up some trouble. I am guessing it's because the typical Bernie supporter can’t get to his second sentence without dropping an F-bomb based on things I've read myself."

See? Bernie's at stage I there, still has way to go. But at least the hostile right have him on their radar.

That's a really odd blog, there.

the forum allows a great deal of right-wing hostility not allowed elsewhere, and credentials are not required, so outsiders come there to act out. Some have undoubtedly been blocked from other political sites altogether and have found a home there.

BTW, the transcription industry is dying and its people grossly underpaid and otherwise abused. This whole website is known as something of a sewer, avoided by dignified people and those still doing okay, but it's really the only gathering place for people who want to complain to others in their boat and to look for jobs postings. I'm in a different medical line of work, which is how I know about this site.

There are some decent people trying to hold the line on the politics forum, but I drop in strictly for a quick idea of what the far right is saying -- unedited. Last time I looked must have been in 2014 because some were calling for armed military on the border to stop refugee children from entering the U.S. and infecting us all with their diseases. Oh, and of course to stop hoards of terrorists hiding among them. And this site is where I discovered the social right was truly outraged by Michelle suggesting we feed our children salad.

Makes DU look almost genteel, doesn't it?

After all, he always gives more and better presents to the rich kids.

gave to a fern. Corrupt neo-con hacks whose opinions aren't worth a tinker's fart.

They both suck.

NT

Mona Charen: Fiorina more serious candidate than Clinton
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/09/24/4054529/mona-charen-fiorina-more-serious.html

Krauthammer: Hillary Is ‘Easily Beaten’ If Republicans Pick ‘Dynamic Candidate’
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/13/krauthammer-hillary-is-easily-beaten-if-republicans-pick-dynamic-candidate/


Right wing Republican assholes attack all Democrats. Is this something you are just now noticing?

these lackeys. I take that as a positive development.