Reply #136: I'm not suggesting a Dennis Kucinich type person. I'm suggesting [View All]

[John Q. Citizen]

a populist instead of an elitist. Tester is a good example, as is Schweitzer.

I think the main reason both Max and Burns have done well here is because they both bring home the bacon, and people know that. Nobody particularly likes either of them though, but to some degree, burns came across more as a populist until his very un populist association with Abramhoff came out.

I also think Max would have struggled last election if the Repos had run a candidate who didn't completely self destruct.

I canvassed Montana for a year or two with MPA, from Libby to Round Up and everything in between talking to people at their doors and raising money for health care reform, so I have an idea of who lives here.

And of what people say. The old time Montanans are a fairly liberal bunch. But you are correct, not liberal in a Dennis Kucinich way. More of in a Pat Williams or a Paul Wellstone way. Many of the newer residents are considerably more conservative, in my experience.