The White House has added "rural issues" and "Native American issues" to a list of nearly a score of items administration officials will talk about (via Twitter) in the days after the President's State of the Union Address. Earlier Monday, these were not part of the White House schedule.
The White House will have all sorts of people holding "office hours" later this week, there to talk about "the issue that matter to you and your community." There's no mention of rural.
Some news reports say Newt Gingrich carried South Carolina by winning big in rural counties. In fact, the former House Speaker won by about the same margin in rural, urban and exurban counties. He did best in exurban South Carolina.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won all across New Hampshire Tuesday, but he did particularly well in urban counties. Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman did better in rural counties than in urban ones.
Four years ago The New York Times said there was a problem with the presidential primary season. The candidates spent too much time in rural states talking about rural issues. So what about this year? Was too much said about rural America?