MT-AL: Rob Quist (D) vs. Greg Gianforte (R) vs. Mark Wicks (L), May 25

[Maxwell]

Quist's crappy campaign is giving them an excuse to look bipartisan.

More like Quist's grab bag of baggage.

[MT Treasurer]

Quist's crappy campaign is giving them an excuse to look bipartisan.

Yeah, this is true lol.

Btw: Even the Missoulian endorsed Pianoforte today - although with some reservations.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

If you define a landslide as 1-5 points while getting 48-49% of the vote, go ahead.

[Holmes]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

Really....?

[Figueira]

I clicked on the last page of the thread and saw Wulfric's comment, and thought that maybe Quist had eaten a live baby or something.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

If you define a landslide as 1-5 points while getting 48-49% of the vote, go ahead.

If Democrat newspapers are endorsing Gianforte, he probably has a good shot at a 10 point or 12 point win, and that's big for MT in non-presidential races.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

If you define a landslide as 1-5 points while getting 48-49% of the vote, go ahead.

If Democrat newspapers are endorsing Gianforte, he probably has a good shot at a 10 point or 12 point win, and that's big for MT in non-presidential races.

Newspaper endorsements do not matter.

[Maxwell]

This will be a test in

1) how much baggage a Democrat can have and still (potentially) win?
2) how mad people are about AHCA?
3) how well a very flawed Bernie-ite candidate can do?

Also, considering how high Quist's name recognition is in Montana (most people have seen him perform), I doubt muh newspaper endorsements are going to matter all that much considering a) how divisive Gianforte is and b) how other scandals have hit Quist and have not dented his polling numbers.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Mitt Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate to be endorsed by the Des Moines Register since 1972.

Guess who won Iowa.

[MT Treasurer]

Yeah, I don't think these endorsements will decide the election or have any significant impact (though they matter more at the local and Congressional level than at the presidential level), but it doesn't happen every day that they endorse a Republican for Congress. I posted this only to show that I'm not the only one who thinks Quist has run a pretty poor campaign.

[The_Doctor]

Gianaforte (can we just call him "Pianaforte"? It delights my ears and makes me think of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast) looks like he's still running a decent race. Nothing has emerged to make me think that Quist pulls out a shock upset; still looks like Pianaforte by 5-7 points.

Montana is a pretty populist state but I don't think they're that ready for Bernieism.

[Mr. Smith]

More proof that Amanda Curtis was the better idea.

[Badger]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

If you define a landslide as 1-5 points while getting 48-49% of the vote, go ahead.

If Democrat newspapers are endorsing Gianforte, he probably has a good shot at a 10 point or 12 point win, and that's big for MT in non-presidential races.

Newspaper endorsements do not matter.

They do in Les prominent races than the presidency, and it includes an at-large congressional seat where 99.99 percent of Voters are not Atlas level absorbed in politics. No, it's not the wide opinion shaker headed in newspaper endorsement used to be comma but when Quest is running several points down and trying to gain momentum and appear to be a serious candidate rather than just a well-meaning hippie with a banjo comma these type of endorsements will not help him with currently undecided voters in other Media Markt. And in a race anticipated to be very close, that ain't good.

[The Other Castro]

Rob Quist raised $500,000 over three days after House passed health care bill.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/montana-house-race-is-gauge-on-trump-test-for-democrats-1494873817

[MAINEiac4434]

Looking forward to the Gianforte landslide!!!!

If you define a landslide as 1-5 points while getting 48-49% of the vote, go ahead.

If Democrat newspapers are endorsing Gianforte, he probably has a good shot at a 10 point or 12 point win, and that's big for MT in non-presidential races.

Newspaper endorsements do not matter.

Can't believe people believe this after like literally every paper in the country endorsed Hillary last fall.

[Figueira]

I'll probably keep calling this Lean R right up until the election. Gianforte is clearly favored, but I don't think we have enough data to count Quist out. Maybe if one or two respectable pollsters poll the race in the next ten days, we'll have a better idea.

[BuckeyeNut]

Mitt Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate to be endorsed by the Des Moines Register since 1972.

Guess who won Iowa.

Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat ever endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Guess who won Ohio.

Chickenhawk is right, newspaper endorsements don't matter. Not to regular people, anyway. Though they may be indicative of larger trends.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Mitt Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate to be endorsed by the Des Moines Register since 1972.

Guess who won Iowa.

Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat ever endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Guess who won Ohio.

Chickenhawk is right, newspaper endorsements don't matter. Not to regular people, anyway. Though they may be indicative of larger trends.

If they were indicative of larger trends, Clinton would have won with a 1984-level landslide.

[BuckeyeNut]

Mitt Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate to be endorsed by the Des Moines Register since 1972.

Guess who won Iowa.

Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat ever endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Guess who won Ohio.

Chickenhawk is right, newspaper endorsements don't matter. Not to regular people, anyway. Though they may be indicative of larger trends.

If they were indicative of larger trends, Clinton would have won with a 1984-level landslide.

They accurately indicated an elite rebuke of the Republican party at the Presidential level. That's not meaningful of actual votes, though.

[GeorgiaModerate]

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[OneJ]

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Good. Although it would've been better if they spent more resources in Montana however, but I'm not complaining.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Is this election all mail-in? I remember there was a kerfuffle over whether it would be or not, but I never heard the resolution.

[GlobeSoc]

The specials held in the shadow of stupid watergate will be disasters for the republicans!

[cinyc]

Is this election all mail-in? I remember there was a kerfuffle over whether it would be or not, but I never heard the resolution.

No.  A lot of the vote will be by mail (as it usually is in Montana), but there will be physical polls open next Thursday, May 25.