Book-ending the Daily Yonder’s data on Republicans winning a larger share of the rural vote in the mid-term election, political analyst Matt Barron says Democrats face problems ranging from poor recruitment of candidates, “not showing up in small towns to campaign,” hiring consultants who lack rural connections and “bad mapmaking” in the 2010 reapportionment. In Arkansas, Iowa and Georgia, Republican candidates for the Senate opposed the 2014 farm law but Democrats could not make political hay with it, Barron writes in The Hill newspaper. “The loss of majority-rural House seats also continues to haunt the Democrats,” says Barron.