Montana State University at Billings released a poll today showing a 4.2% lead for Obama over McCain, 44.4%-40.2%. Montana hasn't been a Democratic State since the Lion of the Senate, Mike Mansfield, last roared and that was a very long time ago.
I don't believe that Barry can actually win Montana. It's just not going to happen. Even if he does, it doesn't make much difference. They have an insignificant number of electoral votes. I do think that the race there is closing. I doubt that the political science department in Billings is full of wild eyed liberals, looking to skew the poll. Montana is one of those States that may not be burdened with an excess of lefty higher education or urban pockets of socialist parasites hungering for poverty level entitlements but they are a literate, informed and thoughtful bunch. They are not swayed by what others think or tell them to think. They are a big gun owner State but they are not worried, at all, that anybody is going to take their guns away, ever. There aren't a lot of gay pride festivals there, so maybe they don't feel threatened by the homos. They go to church but they mostly get baptized in the river, not in the Spirit. If somebody needs an abortion there, they do it out in the barn, with the vet tools. They have troublesome minorities in Montana but nobody is offering a solution to the problems posed by the Mormons and Hutterites.
It's clear a lot of them have been thinking, lately. I wonder if McCain will pull his campaign out of the State. That would make the Dogsled Diva very unhappy.
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