That doesn’t add up at all. How can both be at 50% with urban voters and yet only one of them ‘ignoring the rural vote’? Of course rural votes would have some

That doesn’t add up at all. How can both be at 50% with urban voters and yet only one of them ‘ignoring the rural vote’? Of course rural votes would have some effect at the margins, but the priorities of rural voters would always be a meaningless tie breaker, and never carry significant weight. Yes, votes across the whole country would matter, but rural votes would have so little leverage that they wouldn’t impact the agenda.