In my recent travels abroad, of which I will indeed blog more (with photos) presently, one of the observations I had was that the urban\/rural cultural divide is more important and pronounced than a lot of our other cultural splits.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, one of the (unspoken objection) that a lot of (urban) liberal bloggers have to Gov Palin’s inclusion on the ticket is that by her resume and rhetoric she is not one of \u201cthem.\u201d She doesn\u2019t hang out with, is part of, or identifies with any group with which they associate. And that is problematic because they misread or fail to read her cultural cues.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of non-urban voters out there with more rustic values and virtues and they see them in McCain\u2019s running mate. Their failure to note that seems akin to color blindness. Teddy Roosevelt wouldn\u2019t poll well in the Democratic party today either, and that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n
The urban liberal Hillary voter may be put of by Gov. Palin \u2026 but the suburban\/rural female (and male) voters, I think might poll differently.<\/p>\n
It has been also remarked that by putting Sarah Palin on the ticket, Mr McCain loses his line of attack on Mr Obama regarding \u201cexperience.\u201d While I\u2019m not entirely convinced that\u2019s the case, it also might be noted that Mr Obama loses the \u201cChange\u201d line of attack as well. Mr Biden, Mr McCain are all old hand beltway denizen, and Mr Obama is a Haaaarvard educated lawyer and Senator. That is without even noting that Mr Obama\u2019s actual<\/em> voting record and policies are basic liberal\/progressive boilerplate.<\/p>\n Real change is an outsider like Gov. Palin, who is not<\/em> a lawyer, DC regular or \u201cone of the club\u201d in any way shape or form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my recent travels abroad, of which I will indeed blog more (with photos) presently, one of the observations I had was that the urban\/rural cultural divide is more important and pronounced than a lot of our other cultural splits. With that in mind, one of the (unspoken objection) that a lot of (urban) liberal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marko","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}