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The Republican is incumbent Senator Conrad Burns, a man with the quintessential “aw, shucks” persona. Amidst volunteers who have come to Montana for the final 72 hours of this closely watched campaign, Burns holds an unfathomably large potato above his head and discusses the relative...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Show-Down on the Potato Farm | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

This owes to Burns’ fame for off-color jokes, the most recent of which concerns the immigration status of his house painter. Everyone has their favorite Conrad Burns line. I have two. Conrad Burns walks into a federal office building where a young white girl with a nose...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Show-Down on the Potato Farm | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

This folksiness is what launched Burns, the one-time outsider, to Washington. Now, he is threatened by the thought that “he has been in Washington too long”—a career-ending allegation in Montana, one that is daily conveyed by Democratic attack commercials...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Show-Down on the Potato Farm | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

The down-home demeanor of his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, does not help Burns. Tester is an obese organic farmer with three missing fingers and a flat-top haircut, whose campaign commercials implore, “Isn’t it time the Senate looked a little bit more like...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Show-Down on the Potato Farm | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

NEXT: Burns (R) v. Tester (D)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tipping Point Races | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

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