Last poll I read had Gianforte up 6? Is that about what you are hearing up there? I wonder if the good folks of Montana know that Quist is a gun-grabber? GOA warned about him a couple months ago...
Republican U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte picked up the endorsements of three of Montana’s largest newspapers over the weekend.
The Missoulian, the Helena Independent Record, and the Billings Gazette all endorsed Gianforte over Democrat Rob Quist in the race to fill the state’s open seat in congress.
The endorsements published in the Sunday edition of the newspapers announced the support of Gianforte, but with some reservations.
"What we saw in these endorsements of the editorial boards was as much a lack of confidence in Quist's ability to do the job as it was an endorsement of Gianforte," says Rob Saldin, a political science professor at the University of Montana.
The newspaper editorial boards expressed doubt in Quist's knowledge of policy and his ability to be more than a Democratic placeholder in congress.
“Of course a lack of political experience is there on the Gianforte side as well. The editorial boards just saw Quist as an especially weak candidate. That was especially evident in the Billings Gazette endorsement of Gianforte," Saldin says.
The Billings Gazette wrote that it had "serious concerns about out many of Gianforte’s positions on important topics," but that “we don’t have a clue where Quist stands on most issues, and his criticism of Gianforte seems to be either confused or completely without merit."
Bozeman Chronicle copped out and didn't endorse.At least they wrote, " You don’t have to be a millionaire to serve in Congress; you do have to pay your taxes."
Don't see the race as close as 6 bc of polls always leaning Dem. Then again we always have a Libertarian to siphon votes from the GOP.