I think that was the remainder of Lincoln County. Burns took it, but not by nearly the margin he did in 2000.
It looks to me like some Republicans just didn't turn out to vote for Burns this time around.
Up to 87% in
Tester (RAT) 158,068 49%
Burns (PUBBIE) 153,453 48%
Jones (L) 8,279 3%
Lead down to 4,615.
The Losertarian has a pretty high number of votes for such a sparse population. Didn't we go through this before rather recently with one of the mountain states? Was it MT? Or maybe it was SD?