No, people in MT think they are legally required to keep Max there “fighting for them”. Some will truly believe anything.
Only reason Max won the last “election” in Montana was good old fashioned FRAUD, with the open complicity of what passes for print and TV media in the state.
There were originally two or three Pubbys lined up to run against Baucus, but the “news”papers (especially the Billings Gazette) ran front page hit pieces on all of them from the second they announced until they’d finally been slandered into oblivion.
Then, the ‘rats hired an old political gadfly named Kelleher to file as a Republican for the first time in his life, and using the Open Primary system we’ve got here, got themselves a gag gift opponent who lost by forty or so percentage points in November. (As I recall, I wrote in my grandson’s dog for Senator)
Voila. Baucus wins.
Montana (and the country) loses.
Go and ask the Billings Gazette about any of this, and they’ll probably refer you to our rat governor, who’s famous for equating vote fraud (the ‘06 election that put Tester in the Senate) to a big joke.
I’m not laughing. I’m just looking for ropes.