Remember the crazy, profane tirade Montana House Majority Leader Michael Lange delivered against Gov. Schweitzer? Not a good idea. His GOP colle...

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Earlier today I wrote about the great recent news on youth voting, anchored by these observations. The first by Publius: Speaking as a political ...

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When Jerome and I visited Jon Tester in Big Sandy to interview him for Crashing the Gate, one of us asked him if there were any skeletons in...

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(From the diaries. Montana was the only state in the union in which Republicans seemed to have made gains. Instead, it looks like they won't ga...

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In the remote mountain-west states, with few local media outlets to clutter up the media landscape, newspapers are a bigger part of communities....

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On the web: Jon Tester ...

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Schweitzer stumping for Tester: Said Schweitzer: "Missoula will decide if a man of the prairie, a man of Montana," will be the next U.S. s...

Continue Reading MT-Sen: Schweitzer and Baucus rally the troops

Early voting results and exit polling both conspired to give us big hope in 2004. We'd be well advised to take everything with a grain of salt...

Continue Reading MT-Sen: Tester leading big in early voting (according to his campaign)

Jon Tester's latest: Tag line: I don't look like the other Senators, but isn't it time the Senate look a little bit more like Montana? Meanwhile, the Bi...

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Nothing here that we don't already know, but still a good story about the resurgence of the Mountain West Democrat. They are trying to build on a number of recent succ...

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Montana State Univ. Dates unknown. MoE 4.8% (No trend lines) Burns (R) 35 Tester (D) 46 Now, to temper some enthusiasm, I recall this p...

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