Deep in the red: Sanders stumps for Democrat Rob Quist in Montana

The Spokesman-Review ^ | May 20, 2017 | Alison Boggs

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Calling the campaign a harbinger of things to come, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stumped Saturday for Democrat Rob Quist, who seeks to wrest Montana’s only congressional seat from Republican control.

“I don’t want to make you nervous, but the eyes of this country are on Montana this week,” Sanders told an estimated 3,500 people gathered inside the University of Montana’s Adams Center in Missoula.

“If you can do it in Montana, we can do it all across this country,” Sanders said. “We can create a political revolution that restores power to the working class, not just the billionaire class. That’s what this campaign is about.”

[StAntKnee]

Oops, forgot to cite the source in my last post.

Montana Public Radio.

Apologies.

[donozark]

Thanks for info! Hope Gianforte can pull this out.

[kanawa]

No respect for those that stoke class hatred.

[confederatecarpetbag]

Montana? I don’t see Quist getting much traction by using a gun-hating, three-home-owning, septuagenerian caucasian socialist. Montana is hunting and fishing country. Brian Schweitzer is the former governor, a Democrat who once gave a one-word answer why Obama never did well in the state: “Guns”

I hope Dems are pinning their hopes on Montana. I’d much prefer they invest their campaign loot in long-odds races like this, rather than close contests they need to defend for incumbents.

[Impy]

What there are today is a natural outgrowth of what they were, agrarian populists, which was not a smart ideology.

[Impy]

Obviously trying to gin up rat turnout rather than appeal to swing voters. Might not be a terrible strategy.

Roll call has moved the race to “tilts Republican”, down from “likely”.

Politico reports “GOP Polling” (internals I guess) show us up by only 2-4 points. If you trust politico.