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‘Montana’s likely to be swingin’ all over the place’
Posted by TPW News Items --- September 15th, 2008
Nobody has described the situation in Montana better than the San Francisco Chronicle:
In August, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer predicted that in his swing state, the single-issue gun rights voters will vote for neither John McCain nor Barack Obama (who both received bad grades from the National Rifle Association).
Instead, they would go for Libertarian Bob Barr, splitting the McCain vote and handing the state to Obama. Two days later, however, McCain chose the gun-totin’, moose-eatin’ governor of Alaska to be his running mate. McCain’s ratings in Montana polls jumped, and he seemed on his way to sewing up the West’s swing states. But not so fast: Western Republicans are a divided bunch. Sure, they like their guns, but they also like liberty (Goldwater Republicans) and the landscape (Teddy Roosevelt Republicans). While those folks may steer clear of Obama, they’re also likely to worry how Palin’s “drill, baby, drill” evangelical, book-burning, Bushie leanings will affect their non-Second Amendment freedoms and their favorite hunting grounds. And those
voters – in Montana, at least – have choices. Not only is Barr on the ballot, but so is Ron Paul – a truly maverick Republican, and now the Constitution Party’s nominee, who actually beat McCain in Montana’s GOP caucus. Come November, Montana’s likely to be swingin’ all over the place.
Quick—is it too late to move to Montana to vote?
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