It is no surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have taken steps to engage the rural voters: They make up one-fifth of the electorate.
Author Archives: Daniel Shea
Daniel Shea is a political scientist at Colby College in Waterville. With colleague Nicholas Jacobs, he wrote “ The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America,” which was based on polls of rural U.S. voters conducted between 2020 and 2022.