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

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I feel like this race is still winnable for the Democrats, but to do so they would have to abandon Ossoff. R Hold.

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RIP Quist, R Hold :/

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As Quist Breaks Out, Decades Old Lawsuit Sheds Light on Montana Democrat’s Marriage and Career
Montana Democrat's account of surgery, preexisting condition challenged by doctor, legal records show
Washington Free Beacon/Brent Scher
May 16, 2017 2:00PM

Another oppo dump on Quist.  The doctor in the medical malpractice case Quist has used as part of his narrative about why he didn't pay his taxes alleged that Quist had genital herpes, tested positive for tuberculosis, and smoked pot.

Before this, I just thought that maybe Gianforte was an unfortunate victim of Murphy's Law. This, however, shows that he's willing to go to despicable depths in order to win. This has made me support Quist more, if anything, and I hope that the voters of Montana will agree with me.

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Can Gianforte just behave himself for the next week? Doesn't he realize that if he loses, a BERNIECRAT gets elected? This is honestly getting a little scary.

I mean, by your logic, being Bernie Sanders' child means you're a socialist, regardless of political positions.

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Wasn't that Reuters? Which were subsamples of their national polls.

Nah, Google. Check the link:

National Topline
Clinton: 36
Trump: 35
Johnson: 8
Undecided: 31

Montana
Clinton: 33
Trump: 29

Now all we need is ARG and Zogby to poll this race...

Don't forget Overtime Politics, may they rest in peace.

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While this "poll" is not comforting in any way, I don't believe it signifies the end.

Yeah; this is basically just a step or two above the unholy trinity of ARG, Overtime, and Zogby.

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Very weird to have a new firm emerge without even their own website, Is any more information available on them?

New pollsters without websites that show up 2 days before an election are always the most reliable, don't you know?

Didn't you believe Overtime Politics?

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If that had been released earlier on, that could have made a big impact. Bad idea by the GOP to do it so late.

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What the actual fck

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So if Gianforte were to win the race, but be indicted for this, what would happen?

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All he had to fcking do was not bodyslam a reporter. That's all he had to do; he almost certainly had the upper hand against Quist.

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That audio is legitimately worrying. You can hear the pure anger in Gianforte's voice.

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This dimwit literally just had to not do this to win the district.

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Really, Gianforte's behavior has forced him into a catch-22. Even if he does win, he'll either have to resign, retire, or the Republican chances in this district will be seriously f-cked up come 2018.

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Also, as someone else in IRC pointed out (forgive me; I forget who), this means that Gianforte will likely not run for Governor in 2020, meaning that Fox will probably do so rather than run against Tester. It's astonishing how one man's absolutely f-cking stupid actions will affect this entire state in the future.

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Sure, but let's be honest. Fox would be a much better candidate against Tester than Racicot (if he even runs).

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This thread is already bad enough without the Beetposting.

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Regardless of what happens tonight, even if Gianforte wins, the GOP should be concerned that this race was ever as close as it was.

If this was Wyoming than we should be very concerned but Montana has a large history of electing Democrats so we really shouldn't.

True. Then again, the fact is that if Gianforte wins, he'll probably be one of the first Republicans to fall in 2018.

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Poll someone did on PredictIt using Google Surveys. Assaultforte has a 61% unfavorable rating lol:

Seems like a blatant pushpoll to me.

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LOL someone is triggered, my posts are getting deleted.

Honestly, that's probably good for the quality of this forum. You always predict the very worst to happen to yourself and your party, pretend it never happened when you're wrong, and on the occasions that you're right obsessively demand apologies from people who call you out for your behavior and claim you're one of the smartest posters here. It gets very tiring to deal with very quickly.

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MT Treasurer, the only actual Montanan here, has said before that these races tend to take a long time to call and the vote often swings to one side quickly and unexpectedly. Let's all stop Beetposting, please.

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Calling the race as a loss this early is still a bad idea.