Rural voters shifting in favor of the Democrats

This is incredibly good news. The rural districts tend to go heavily Republican. In fact, David Brooks often talks about the correlation between the distance from the inner cities and the percentage of Republicans. Well, that's changing rapidly:

The rural vote has shifted in favor of Democratic congressional candidates in the last month, indicating Republicans are losing ground with a key constituency, according to the Center for Rural Strategies Poll.

The poll of rural voters in 41 contested congressional districts found that likely voters preferred Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 13 points, 52 percent to 39 percent. In mid-September, the same population of voters was evenly split between the two parties at 45 percent each.