One reason people like troy jackson and scott colom are doing far better than politicos might have expected is that they talk like the people who would vote for them. And it's real--the subtle nuances of dialects down to communities. The town 15 miles from here has a different accent from ours.

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I think it's going to be the latter. As in most elections, people are not really understanding what's happening with rurals. I was going to address that, but it ended up a whole essay so I might post it as a thread later. But for the first time rural voters feel the gop is an existential threat.

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Call them naive or ignorant or whatever, but this is not what they expected. That among other reasons is why I think Tuesday is unpredictable, but gop insiders keep saying it's bad. I don't know. All I know is the differences in what i'm seeing here in an integrated rural community in a red state.

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The problem is high eday turnout might not even be enough to save them between potential R defectors and bleeding independent voters

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They are so intent on keeping their choices in the election private that they won't even risk going to the polls.

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