CNN! Tester "slightly ahead" of Burns-- 53%-45%! WTF?

[FrenchieCat]

Looks like tester is pretty way ahead to me! Doh! :eyes:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/senate/

[izzybeans]

1. It should stay about the same. They must be milking as much of an

audience they can get at this point.

[Ediacara]

2. Tester is way ahead of Burns

Keeping a lead in Yellowstone Co (Billings), ahead by 2:1 in Silverbow (Butte), ahead by 3:2 in Lewis and Clark (Helena), ahead by 2:1 in Missoula (Missoula), ahead by 2:1 in Cascade (Great Falls), and he's even leading in Hill (Havre) and Park (Livingston) Cos.

As far as I'm concerned, Tester wins this one. I'll wait on Gallitin Co results, but it's pretty much a done deal.

[Monty_]

3. 40% in

I know nothing about Montana politics but only 40% in

[karlrschneider]

6. Gallitin is Bozeman, right? (I never lived in MT but spent some time there)

I don't see enough population left to overcome Tester's lead, let alone GOP voters...
...

[Ediacara]

8. Yes

Bozeman itself is heavily dem, county as a whole is slightly GOP, so it makes very little difference if standard voting patterns show up.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. it depends on who's winning....chimp had a mandate with a 2+% win

over Kerry

that should be "win"

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Any Montana experts know about how what counties go Dem and what goes GOP?

[Ediacara]

12. here's a quick rundown

Any urban county, or Indian Reservation county is likely to go Dem. So far with the urban counties we're at:

Missoula Co (Missoula) Tester 64%
Silverbow Co (Butte) Tester 68%
Lewis and Clark Co (Helena) Tester 60%
Gallatin Co (Bozeman) No results yet
Cascade Co (Great Falls and Malmstrom AFB) Tester 58%
Flathead Co (Kallispell) Burns 55% (this is a heavily GOP county)
Park Co (Livingston) Tester 51%
Yellowstone Co (Billings, the largest county in MT, about 15% of the total population) Tester 51%

[Leopolds Ghost]

13. "Flathead County (This is a heavily GOP county)"

:rofl:

[fishwax]

7. Burns is toast

Tester will win this, I'm quite sure. Way to go Tester! :toast:

[darkism]

9. Tester's lead got slightly larger since the last time they reported it

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

And no, we don't have a war on it.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Yuk Yuk....

As I watch Ford Concede....I have some solace.

Ford was just too "uppity"......a threatening Black man is not gonna make it in the South for a bit longer!

[GreenTea]

10. Tester wins, no doubt about it, as does Webb...MO in question...

then, there's two Indys...what does that mean, Sanders, Lieberman...We need McCaskill...a shame about Ford in TN...But still...WE GOT IT!