Many voices. One voice.
Rural America speaks more than one language.
The face of rural America is changing. To succeed, we need new levels of cooperation, dialogue and civic engagement. We need to think creatively about investing in our communities and our people in a common sense, long-term way. The League of Rural Voters is the leading progressive voice holding elected officials accountable to the needs of rural America. With so much at stake in the next election, your support will make all the difference.
Press Release
04/023/2008
The League of Rural Voters Joins National Group to Address Rural Policy
Minneapolis - In the run up to the fall elections, the League of Rural Voters (LRV) has joined with other national rural advocacy groups in calling on Presidential and Congressional candidates to pursue a new direction in rural policy.
As part of a grassroots campaign, LRV is asking individuals and organizations to sign on to a statement of principles about the future of rural America dubbed The Rural Compact.
- Full text
- Sign the compact at www.ruralcompact.org
Press Release
02/06/2008
Super Tuesday Turnout Shows Voters Looking for Change
Minneapolis - Today, the League of Rural Voters Executive Director Niel Ritchie issued the following statement regarding the Super Tuesday results.
"While the campaigns vow to continue the fight and work out strategy, the real story of Super Tuesday is the number of people, rural and urban, who participated in the caucuses and primaries across the county, many for the first time."
Press Release
01/04/2008
Young voters, rural voters deliver
Once-Marginalized Demographics Turn Out to Vote in Heavy Numbers; Deliver Victories to Obama and Huckabee The National Election Poll and the Associated Press indicate that youth turnout increased dramatically from 2004 on both the Republican and the Democratic sides; one in five caucus-goers was under age 30 - about three times as many as typically vote in early presidential nomination events; and overall caucus turnout swelled to 340,000.
