Quoted: “It’s the nature of politics today that it has been more efficient for the Democratic Party to focus on urban areas. That’s where their base of support is. In some respects, they have neglected rural places in the state and across the country,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer, whose recent book on rural politics in Wisconsin (“The Politics of Resentment”) has drawn national attention in the wake of Trump’s rural landslides. Democrats in both the U.S. House and Senate invited Cramer this year to share her insights with them on what happened last fall in the small counties and towns of the battleground Midwest.
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