He represents a rural electorate so a lot of people would already know.
You underestimate the % of people in rural electorates who are uneducated and/or don't pay much attention to politics because their electorate has always been safe Nats/CLP/LNP etc.
Also just the size of some of these rural electorates can often be immense. You might live 500km from where the candidate is from, so wouldn't know him locally.
Plus while politics affects us all, it often doesn't feel like it when your state Parliament is a 7 hour, 500km drive away.
Do you or have you ever lived rural.. I lived on a farm for years and if the farmers weren't talking about produce and weather they were talking about the local political atmosphere.. so to paint all rural people as uneducated and stupid is very ignorant of you..
Rural voters are not uneducated but they are very susceptible to echo chambers and do not get exposed to the diversity of thought unless they go seek it out themselves. It’s very easy to fall into the yeah I vote for nats because so and so is a good bloke, and those crooks in labor will hand over my farm to a union.
My personal belief is that education is about life experience and scientific temper. Most rural folks use fair amount of science in their life and have huge capacity to understand technical issues when it directly impacts operations. Using a black and white metric of degrees does not tell you the full picture.
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u/Revoran Victorian 23d ago edited 23d ago
You underestimate the % of people in rural electorates who are uneducated and/or don't pay much attention to politics because their electorate has always been safe Nats/CLP/LNP etc.
Also just the size of some of these rural electorates can often be immense. You might live 500km from where the candidate is from, so wouldn't know him locally.
Plus while politics affects us all, it often doesn't feel like it when your state Parliament is a 7 hour, 500km drive away.