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...Iraq dominates the national political landscape, one might expect the candidates to talk about the overseas war. They do, of course, but by far the more popular discussion is who will bring more pork to Montana...
...Burns trumpets his seniority and his seat on the Appropriations Committee, which he has used to earmark many millions of dollars for Montana projects...
...Tester says Burns isn’t all that he’s cracked up to be, and Montana’s other senator, a Democrat, boasts that he has brought to Montana more money than Burns. Harry Reid, the Democrats’ Senate leader, rushed in weeks ago to assure Montanans that their gravy train will not be derailed, announcing that Tester will be given a seat on the Appropriations Committee if he wins...
...Some of most recent polls show Burns and Tester running even. Politicos, most of all the out-of-state hired guns trawling Montana neighborhoods, realize that a victory for either will mean getting those citizens who care the least to the polls. God forbid it rains or snows, meticulous Republicans say, and prevents the reticent, rural voters they’re counting on from journeying to the polls. In short, a handful of the least civic-minded citizens will decide who Montana’s senator will be and, possibly, who will control Congress...
...Whether Democrats or Republicans win, their boosters will speak of a repudiation or a vindication on a grand scale. If the Montana mayhem tells us anything, it’s that our democracy is too tenuous to make such claims truthful...