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...burden of proof on the defendant: Drunk until proven innocent indeed. Mandatory universal ignition interlocks are merely another step down the slippery slope of imposing ever more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions in the name of health and safety...
...percent at the polls. Facebook’s new “Pulse” feature allowed members to support candidates by visiting profiles and clicking a button, much as users can “friend” others. The Web site highlighted closely contested Senate races in Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. In every one of these races, the majority of Facebook users supported the Democratic candidate. Although Facebook does not claim to be a reliable predictive tool, its members got their way in all but Tennessee, where Democratic candidate Harold E. Ford Jr. lost to Republican...
...After what started as a 10% to 12% lead for Tester, it came down to a very close race, and Burns actually won most of the 56 Montana counties, including edging Tester in populous Yellowstone County, site of Billings, the state's largest city. Burns triumphed in the smaller, rural counties, as he has always done, and any new Tester votes in those places were ultimately irrelevant, according to the final tally...
...probably was the angry, anti-Burns-motivated voter turnouts in those key Dem counties, following an especially nasty and costly (for Montana) broadcast and print campaign. Beginning in 2005, the Democratic Party ran TV ads linking Burns to Abramoff. Then Burns compounded matters by badmouthing wildland firefighters and remaining devoted to Bush and the Iraq war, which hurt his image among women and independents in the Democratic counties. Enough of Montana's independent voters showed their displeasure with Burns to squeak Tester...
...Tester won only 14 of the 56 counties, and some of those, just barely. But it was apparently enough. So Montana, which overwhelmingly re-elected its lone G.O.P. Congressman, essentially remains a red state. Brian Schweitzer's election in 2004 to governor can be considered a fluke, as he was running against a scandal-ridden, incompetent G.O.P. incumbent. Neither his victory, nor Tester's, can be considered a trend toward blue in the West, as some Eastern pundits have interpreted it. Voters in those traditional G.O.P. counties demonstrated that no amount of scandal could sour them on Burns...