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Romney’s visiting Appalachian Ohio today. Could rural votes pick the state’s winner?

Posted Aug. 14, 2012 by Dave Gustafson

Athens County, home to Ohio University, has backed Democrats in the last five presidential elections -- but all of the less-populous surrounding counties have proven tricky political territory for President Obama, who lost every county in the region to Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2008 Democratic primary. He then lost most Southeast Ohio counties to John McCain in the general election. (Photo by Dave Gustafson | Patchwork Nation)

Mitt Romney’s bus tour made stops across Southeast Ohio Tuesday, in towns that could cast the decisive votes in November’s presidential election. But are the campaigns addressing rural voters’ top priorities?

The Wisconsin recall: “I’m beginning to understand what the Civil War was like.”

Posted June 5, 2012 by Anna Weggel

Eli Barr watches as his great-grandmother, Joanne Goff, casts a ballot in the Wisconsin recall election June 5 in Delavan, Wis. (Photo by Scott Olson | Getty Images)

Can a democratic process change the state’s nature?

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