Posted on 11/04/2014 8:47:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Freshman Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) easily clinched victory in the Montana Senate race Tuesday, scoring another pickup for Republicans.
Daines was seen as the favorite throughout the year, and any hope of Democrats retaining the seat fell away when interim Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) bowed out of the race in August amid revelations that he plagiarized large portions of his master's thesis at the Army War College in 2007.
The Associated Press and other outlets called the race shortly after polls closed there.
Democrats scrambled to replace Walsh on the ballot, picking Amanda Curtis, a freshman state representative. But she trailed Daines by double digits since being nominated in mid-August.
Outside groups largely avoided the state, conceding that it would become a Republican pickup....
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