What do those percentages translate to in numbers of votes?
Yellowstone is the biggest, followed by Gallatin. The rest of the counties are fairly small.
Right now Burns needs 4,725 votes from Yellowstone, Fergus, and Meagher counties or he's toast.
Lewis and Clark just finished reporting and gave the RAT a handful more votes.
Tester (RAT) 158,536 49%
Burns (PUBBIE) 153,811 48%
Jones (L) 8,294 3%
87% in.
Here's to hoping that Yellowstone County counted all the RAT-favorable precincts first.
Outstanding Montana Counties:
Cascade (61% in) - Tester leading 52-46 (-1261); Burns lost this in 2000 52-46 (-1990)
Fergus (50% in) - Burns is leading 64-33 (+775); Burns won Fergus 64-34 in 2000 (+1783)
Gallatin (33% in) - Burns leading 49-49 (+212); Burns won this in 2000 53-46 (+2267)
Lake (91% in) - Tester leading 49-47 (-89); Burns won this in 2000 49-48 (+161)
Meagher (0% in) - Burns won this in 2000 67-29 (+358)
Yellowstone (14% in) - Burns leading 49-48 (+244); Burns won this in 2000 51-47 (+2644)