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As I understand it, if Burns returns to the Senate (or even if he doesn't, for that matter) he is likely to be indicted. If he is, and has to resign, won't the Democratic governor be free to appoint a new, presumably Democratic Senator?

Montana is more purple than red. It went to Clinton in '96.

Schweitzer's win was no miracle, either. Judy Martz was almost universally reviled.

I think Tester will win, too.

Funny thing about Montana is that the right wing is as hardcore as you will find anywhere. But the majority of citizens are the "leave me alone" rural types who distrust all politicians, loathe carpetbaggers, and often don't register a partisan affiliation.

Burns is an absolute moron, and a dick to boot. The MT right loves him because he can't talk too good and he uses words like "ragheads" and "niggers," and suggests he's in on super secret plans about Iraq. That he is polling so high suggests Montanans are idiots, by and large.

After living in Billings for 11 months, I'm not inclined to disagree. I know some Montanans I love dearly (my husband and his family among them), but for the most part I wish Montana would just go away. It is a vapid fuckhole of karaoke bars where leathery women with big hair sing "Desperado" to get laid.

George Bush is to a cowboy hat as Mark Finley is to a wig

i don't really have anything to add to this thread, but I wanted to say that I was really looking forward to reading eli's article. I thought it was really well done and provided an interesting look into a story that I personally find really fascinating.

You actually answered your own question, Eli.

Montana, a state that doesn’t much care for citified liberals.

They're actually doing Tester a favor by not sending any of their mainstream talking heads out there. It would likely turn off their casual voters and growing base.

They need a blue-collar populist figure to go out there and stump for him. Maybe someone should get Ed Schultz on the phone.

I thought that article was excellent.

I tell you who the people of Montana would respond to: General Wesley Clark. The man has gravitas out the kazoo, he's very well-respected by veterans, and he's not perceived as some citified latte-sipping liberal type. Had he been Kerry's choice for VP, the election would not have been close enough to steal.

I *heart* Brian Schweitzer. I think he and Tester, and the others like them, are the future of the Democratic Party, a return to its populist roots.

President Bush's "tag cloud"
http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/
What words he says most often... this one is the 1/31/06 state of the union address.
Unsurprisingly, terrorist is #1.

FRESCO

I'l be back... :)

Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you...

Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you...