Rural citizens chosen for CNN's YouTube Debate ask the Democratic candidates about national issues: No Child Left Behind, race and gender credentials, and a military draft that would include women.

Stefanie Feldman, traveling with John Edwards through the Kentucky mountains, questions whether an increasingly urban nation will back his plan for rural America.

The leading presidential candidates spent their 4th of July mingling with potential Iowa caucus-goers. They paraded through small towns across the state. They at holiday food, sweated and posed for pictures next to the iconic pickup truck or local mayor. Nobody said running for president was easy.

John Edwards looks comfortable in a pair of jeans and rolled up sleeves, talking to citizens in the heartland. In an article, Getting Real, in the July 2007 issue of Men's Vogue,reporter Joe Hagan describes John Edwards as a man who is not only proud of his rural and Southern heritage but betting his campaign on it.

'Rural' hasn't exactly been at the tip (or any other portion) of the candidates' tongues in the first several presidential debates. Maybe that will change. If not, speak your piece about the candidates and the campaign in DY's forums.