LETTERS.

• Date: 01 April 2023

Voting While Rural

Many responses to the February/March issue were about John Nichols's "Further Comment: The Price of Ignoring Rural Voters." Here is a sampling:

John, I'm as frustrated as you that our party is not performing well in rural America. I was raised in Winneshiek County, Iowa, by farming grandparents and Republican parents. I voted for Nixon's re-election in my first presidential election. My dad said, "They all do it, he just got caught."

Fifty years later, when virtually everyone is getting caught at some level of election atrocity--albeit way more of this goes on in the Republican Party--I am all about this rural-urban divide and why Iowans and Wisconsinites have lost their way to the ballot box for farmer and worker rights and social equity. These are troubled times, but rural voters will vote according to their kitchen table issues when they're framed appropriately.

--Julie Stroeve, web comment

We commend the writer for his astute and unbiased assessment of the recent [Wisconsin Third] District Congressional race and its outcome. Surely there can be no disagreement with the tenets of this article, as the politically neutral stance of this publication, The Nation, and The Capital Times of Madison are widely recognized by all except those who may be rightwing extremists.

--James Jenco, web comment

How many times do we have to hear that Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy works (if implemented)? But why do the feckless Democrats continue to flail? It's because the high-priced campaign consultants can't make any money...