Will soccer moms win it for Kamala?

Journalists have now spent nearly a decade haunting the farms and taverns of rural America, trying to understand why millions of decent heartlanders voted for Trump. It’s a romantic story, casting the underdogs against elites, and explaining how America’s forgotten middle found hope in an uncouth New York billionaire. But understanding these voters and empathising with them are very different things. Democrats are not recovering their losses and Republicans are still making inroads. In Wisconsin, for instance, one Republican strategist told me early results actually show Trump gaining in small towns and farmsteads.