Jay Cost of the “HorseRaceBlog” on RealClearPolitics.com delved into an area where few mainstream political commentators tread–farm state politics. His post was entitled: ” Does McCain Have a Rural Problem? ”
Earlier in the campaign, somewhat famously, Barrack Obama commented about embittered rural citizens “clinging to religion and guns.” That comment is his rural problem. And he has it in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania. McCain’s problem, as posited insightfully by Cost who has a real grasp on the economies and politics of these corn-belt states, is Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska. And it all comes down to this: ethanol. Cost wrote, in part:
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