Montana Democrat Senator Jon Tester barely won his seat thanks to the Libertarian and Republican candidates splitting the right-leaning voters.
Now, Tester has become more vulnerable. Libertarian candidate Rick Breckenridge has withdrawn and thrown his support behind Republican candidate Matt Rosendale.
“Jon Tester just lost the ace up his sleeve that has...
The University of Montana has been struggling with dropping enrollment. Are more cuts coming?
The Missoulian reports:
University of Mont...
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) has a predicament this weekend. He has to walk his daughter down the aisle on Saturday, but that’s when the confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should happen.
He announced on Twitter he will comes back to vote yes if needed.
Just cast my vote for Judge...
The Cook Political Report changed its ratings in three Senate races, including Texas. The map still tends to favor the GOP keeping its majority, but it’s looking like incumbent Democrats Joe Tester from Montana and Joe Manch...
June 5 was the most important primary night for 2018 with a handful of states hitting the polls. Most eyes stayed on California since the state has a crazy jungle primary, which means the top two candidates will land on the ballot even if they’re in the same party.
It looks like...
We continue to keep a close eye on polls for the midterms coming up in November because 2016 taught us THAT ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.
An Axios/SurveyMonkey poll came out today that shows five Democrat senators losing if elections occurred today. FOUR of...
USA Today has done an excellent investigation into the Department of Veteran Affairs. Its latest bombshell shows that the VA has hired doctors they know have malpractice claims and felony convictions. How could this possibly happen? A not so thorough hiring process:
Applications are vetted, education and licenses verified, references checked, and...
Texas’ Gulf Coast isn’t the only part of the country being ripped apart by a natural disaster. More than half a million acres of Montana and part of Idaho are being destroyed by wildfires.
To give you an idea of how widespread the current devastation is:
Rock’em Sock’em Republican candidate Greg Gianforte, best known for “body-slamming” and ego-shaming a reporter for The Guardian, defeated Democratic Candidate Rob Quist, best known as a nudist resort socialist Cowboy poet and singer.
While the final num...
There is simply no excuse for what happened in Montana last night.
Prior to a campaign rally held by Republican Congressional candidate Greg Gianforte for today’s special election, Gianforte allegedly roughed up Guardian political reporter, Ben Jacobs.
James Taranto’s late, lamented Wall Street Journal column had a running tongue-in-cheek rubric, “We Blame George W. Bush,” in which the former president was blamed for everything under the sun, despite his utter lack of connection to it.
In that spirit, Taranto might have had a field day with a panel discussi...
Having failed to score a win in the Kansas special election and with Jon Ossoff not winning outright in Georgia, Democrats are turning their attention to the May 25 special election in Montana.
This special election is taking place to fill Montana’s only House seat to replace former Representative and current Secretary...
As we learned from Scott Brown’s (R-MA) supermajority-breaking special election win in January of 2010, special elections can and sometimes do serve as harbingers for midterms. There are three upcoming special elections to replace House members who have joined President Trump’s cabinet, and each is turning out to be unexpectedly challenging...
