Rural Voters, Latino Voters Defy Easy Narratives in Midterms

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates managed to turnout their rural supporters while many rural Republicans stayed home. And long-term under-investment in Latino voter engagement by Democrats continues to stymie the party's statewide hopes in places like Florida and Texas.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Ximena Bustillo, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and political correspondent Ashley Lopez.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Orin in Los Angeles, California, where yes, it is 70 degrees, and yes, the Christmas
0:06.8	music is playing on repeat. This podcast was recorded at...
0:11.6	1-10 PM on Monday, the 28th of November.
0:16.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Okay, here's the show.
0:23.9	Things may have changed except your weather, which is almost always perfect.
0:27.5	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:32.5	I'm Hemenabustia and I cover politics.
0:34.5	And I'm Dominica Montenaro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:37.9	Now that the dust has really settled on the midterms,
0:41.5	today we're going to explore what happened with two demographic groups.
0:45.1	Democrats were paying close attention to.
0:47.8	Rural voters and Latino voters.
0:50.2	And let's start with rural voters.
0:53.3	Dominica, this was a group that for generations, Democrats had a lock on.
0:58.8	And there are still vestiges of that. Look at West Virginia's Joe Manchin, for instance.
1:03.6	But what happened? How broadly speaking, over time, did they lose this group?
1:09.9	Well, culture has really been a huge shift in this.
1:13.3	You know, it used to be centered around economics and Democrats had been the party of unions
1:19.2	and factory workers and the working class. And that shifted where Democrats were then seen as
1:25.1	more of an elite party, a party of more educated voters, college degrees and so forth, and more
1:32.6	urban voters. So it really shifted over time where Republicans then used culture issues
1:38.3	to really turn this group around. And we've seen them vote by huge margins ever since.
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