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42. Farmers

Sun May 17, 2026, 04:28 PM

20 hrs ago

There are not enough farmers - farm owners - to affect election results, even in the most heavily agricultural areas. People identify with the image, with the stereotype, and the Republicans play on that imagery, but we shouldn't buy into it. Farm owners vote in alignment with the way owners in every industry vote. They skew Republican maybe 60/40. In this agricultural area here, Trump got 10,000 or so votes, but there's only 300 voters.

Republicans point to those maps with all those huge expanses of red in rural areas and suggest that the country is mostly conservative. We reinforce that illusion when we buy into the idea that it's mostly farmers in those areas. Acres don't vote. People do.

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Farmers Cirsium 20 hrs ago #42

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There we go Cirsium 16 hrs ago #44