Control of MT House was extremely close

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The critical House seat had the Democrats down 4 votes, with 4 provisional ballots left to be counted. A lot of people may have prematurely called this one. All 4 ballots went to the Democrat, and Governor Schweitzer gets to break the tie for the Democrats.

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/11/14/montana_top/a01111406_01.txt

[Deano963]

The critical House seat had the Democrats down 4 votes, with 4 provisional ballots left to be counted. A lot of people may have prematurely called this one. All 4 ballots went to the Democrat, and Governor Schweitzer gets to break the tie for the Democrats.

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/11/14/montana_top/a01111406_01.txt

That's hilarious.

[GOP = Terrorists]

That's hilarious.

No that is f'ing awesome.

I don't wanna hear "my vote doesn't matter" out of anyone ever.

[socaldem]

Wow... something very similar happened in 2004 when a now-one-termer Democrat beat out the Constitution party candidate by like 7 contested votes.

With a 100-seat house, it seems almost inevitable that competitive Montana elections get decided by the barest of margins.

Now we can again add MT to the list of states with unified Dem control, though the House, of course, is under very tenous control because of the split.

[GOP = Terrorists]

Now we can again add MT to the list of states with unified Dem control, though the House, of course, is under very tenous control because of the split.

Didn't a GOP State Senator just swap to the Dems to give them control of the Senate?

Is Montana a blue state now? =)

[Brandon H]

Wow... something very similar happened in 2004 when a now-one-termer Democrat beat out the Constitution party candidate by like 7 contested votes.

With a 100-seat house, it seems almost inevitable that competitive Montana elections get decided by the barest of margins.

Now we can again add MT to the list of states with unified Dem control, though the House, of course, is under very tenous control because of the split.

Yes, first it was a tie, so the outgoing Republican Governor appointed Rick Jore to the seat, but then the state Supreme Court disqualified several ballots and the seat went to the Democrat. Very questionable as the disputed ballots were posted online. But Jore won the seat this time.

Jore left the Republicans because they were becoming too moderate. Kitzenberg leaves because the Republicans were not moderate enough. Either way, the more different parties holding seats, the better.

Eaten and Kerns had better hope they don't get stuck with a recount bill, even if neither requests it.