If Hillary Clinton holds blue leaning states, she's won the election.

[ptbw forever]

Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America

The negative consequences of growing up in a poor family are well known. Poor children are less likely to have timely immunizations, have lower academic achievement, are generally less engaged in school activities, and face higher delinquency rates in adolescent years.1 Each of these has adverse impacts on their health, earnings, and family status in adulthood. Less understood is how the experience of poverty can differ depending on the community context. Being poor in a relatively well-off community with good infrastructure and schools is different from being poor in a place where poverty rates have been high for generations, where economic investment in schools and infrastructure is negligible, and where pathways to success are few.2 The hurdles are even higher in rural areas, where low population density, physical isolation, and the broad spatial distribution of the poor make service delivery and exposure to innovative programs more challenging.

This brief looks at both the incidence of high child poverty (20 percent or greater) over the past three decades and at the places where such high child poverty has persisted for all of those decades (see Box 1 for definitions of high and persistent child poverty). Our analysis documents both that the incidence of high child poverty is growing nationwide and that rural America includes a disproportionate share of children living in counties characterized as having persistent high child poverty.
Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America

Republicans don't give a shit about rural America.

All the state funding goes to the cities, and usually when a state has a big city their state government is Democrat.

Democrats have already admitted they don't give a shit about rural people via Nancy Pelosi.

Rural areas are republican red. Isn't it incumbent on republicans to do something about the areas they control?

What control do they actually have?

Governors of fucking states have less power than their own US Senators and House Reps.

 

[L.K.Eder]

She's going to lose Maine, looks like. If my fellow Mainers don't regain their sanity in the next 4 weeks, anyway.
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It doesn't look like that to me.

RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - Maine: Trump vs. Clinton

Thanks. Hope you're right. Not what I've been hearing.

check the latest polls.

http://mprc.me/research/1016_presidential1.pdf

of course, all polls not showing trump winning are false. but nevertheless, here they are.