Posted on 08/27/2018 1:09:59 PM PDT by davikkm
Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale leads Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Montana, according to a poll released Monday. Rosendale leads Tester, 47 to 45 percent, in a recent poll conducted by WPA Intelligence for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). Five percent of Montana voters remain undecided, and the race has a four-point margin of error. The survey questioned 600 likely Montana voters from August 20 through 22.
Rosendale won the Montana Senate Republican primary in June, while Sen. Tester hopes to secure his third term in the Senate this November.
Both Rosendale and Tester had similar favorability ratings. Forty-four percent of Montana voters had a favorable impression of the state’s auditor, while 46 percent had a negative view of Rosendale. Forty-nine percent have a favorable opinion of Tester, compared to the 46 percent who had an unfavorable view of the two-term senator.
Tester faces an increasingly competitive race against Rosendale, as President Donald Trump won Montana by 20 points in 2016. Fifty-four percent of Montanans approved of the job the president is doing, while only 44 disapproved of Trump’s job performance.
WPA Intelligence surveyed Montana voters after Sen. Tester’s campaign became engulfed in controversy in August after a Pearl Jam poster for a get-out-the-vote campaign promoting Tester featured a dead Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse. Tester is close friends with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who designed the poster.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This is the best news I’ve read all day.
Republicans: Please vote in the upcoming midterm election.
The country needs you to vote, vote vote in November.
President Donad J. Trump needs and deserves your unwavering support.
Thank You.
I trust the President is coming to see the people of Montana that love him s!1 And grab this seat from the Democrats. This would really be great.
It’s difficult to defeat an incumbent, especially a popular one. That’s why the reelection rate for incumbents is well over 90%. But, Tester votes like a Connecticut Senator rather than a Montana Senator and perhaps the voters will notice that this year.
Most certainly! Great news!
After the lies Jon Testor made about Dr Ronnie Jackson he deserved to lose his seat at a minimum.
Get out the vote Big Sky Country!!
Holy crap ... “Red Wave” (where’s the hurricane flag???)
That means money! Go for it! Tester would be a big fish-more ways than one. Are we up to it. My money will be evenly divided between Marsha, the black fella in Michigan and perhaps the guy in Mo. $300 altogether. Late September is a good time to see what races are winnable. Michigan is my vanity gift.
needed to determine if it was worth spending more cash to win the state.
Defeating incumbents is hard... and then you get 1986. *sigh*
My friends: This is disappointing. It’s good news but not enough of you are responding. Isn’t this now doable?
Excellent news indeed. I’m from Montana. I know what comes next. Dem campaign moves to full “Rosendale supports bail for child molesters and baby killers.”
Get tough, Matt. Gotta win this.
Who are not responding?
John Tester wants to kill people.
Fox’s senate map is useless. This race should be moved into the tossup column along with a couple other dem seats.
14 responses. No one’s responding.
The Lee Enterprises papers in MT (which is basically the larger cities) all ran stories this weekend making John Tester out to be a good old country boy.
I thought they might run a photo of him splitting rails.
The Liberals have put a lot of money into Tester’s campaign. They have been running tv ads for quite some time.
Tester was first elected because of Democrat cheating.
MT’s Democrat Governor Schweitzer bragged about it to a meeting of lawyers.
Tester behaves like all Democrat politicians in MT.
He runs as a Conservative and votes as a Liberal.
He needs to go back to playing the piccolo in Big Sandy.
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