We look at the issues that matter to voters in Montana before they head to the polls for their June 3 primary. Find out how Montana’s Democrats have been successful in Big Sky Country in recent years, and why the governor was the first to sign a law banning the enforcement of the Real ID Act. Chuck Johnson is a reporter in the Lee Newspapers State Bureau in Helena, Montana.
States of the Union fact of the week: Montana has three state names: Treasure State, Big Sky Country, and The Last Best Place
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Comments [4]
Jon Tester, the new senator, the rancher/trumpet player who is missing some fingers is not your typical lefty Democrat. Max Baucus has always seemed fairly centrist.
Hunters in the West are often aligned with environmentalists. It has to do with not degrading the wild areas any more than they already are.
McCain's lead in Montana is 8 points. That is not big at all - in fact, it is quite small. I guess it only has 3 electoral votes anyway.
what about turn Montana in to a bison nature preserve?
Interesting poll: 52% BHO and 35% for HRC. Where are the other 13%? Undecided?
If the state usually goes Republican in presidential races does that mean that the senators and governor are of a different type of Democrat than the presidential nominees of late?
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