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By Bill Bishop and Tim Murphy
John Kerry lost the rural counties in battleground states by 15 percentage points. Obama was able to narrow that deficit to seven.
Barack Obama didn't win rural America, but he didn't lose here as badly as did John Kerry in 2004.
Sen. Hillary Clinton won West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary by her greatest margin thus far. She received 70% of the state's rural vote.Racing For '08/Archive
05/07/2008
After the vote in Indiana and North Carolina, Democrats are favoring Obama, but the party remains split between rural and urban communities.
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are attracting support from those who live separately and vote separately.
For the first time in a century, people born in some communities in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than those born a generation before. Most of those places are in rural America.
Hillary Clinton built her ten-point margin over Barack Obama with overwhelming wins in rural and exurban Pennsylvania.Growth and Development | Main Street Economics | Travel/Recreation
04/16/2008
The assumption over the last week has been that economic distress is limited to small towns and rural regions. That's not the case in Pennsylvania.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has adopted a rural strategy in her campaign — and seven of the remaining eight primary states have higher proportions of rural voters than the U.S. average.
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