This means that if the room for voting is the school gym, or the library public events room, they probably can come into the school or library to distribute the sample ballots.
But web search shows the rules in Montana are stricter:
I’ve never seen anyone handing out sample ballots at the polls, even well back from the 100’ lines. I haven’t voted everywhere in the state, of course.
There are sample ballots as you come into the voting room, so you can read them while waiting if there’s a line; but they’re most certainly not pre-marked by anybody.
Okay, I am gonna call it as a win for Alme, the Republican- with Bankhead (D) 2nd and Bodnar (I) 3rd. And if the total of Bankhead and Bodnars votes are more than the GOP guy, I will be pissed. In any case, unless one of them drops out it is a certain win for the Republican. Which is not good- and since Bankhead actually won the primary…
Lucky drivers in the parking lot of a Detroit gas station on Wednesday, Oct. 14, encountered a woman in a red, belted pantsuit and black stilettos walking around and giving away free $10 gift cards for gas to customers.
“You should have gotten me before you filled up. I’ve got a $10 gift card,” she said into the open door of a white sedan.
What the woman didn’t lead with in her exchange with the driver at the Freedom Fuel gas station on Harper and Cadieux is that she is Kristi Rogers, wife of Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers, who is locked in a tight contest with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed that could help determine control of the U.S. Senate next term.
This would probably be the biggest polling failure in the cycle, so – extremely unlikely.
What about Idaho and Nebraska, where the Democrats who won the primaries did drop out in favor of an independent? Polls shows that that long-time Idaho GOP incumbent Senator Jim Risch is sure to win. But Nebraska GOP incumbent Senator Pete Ricketts is only ahead of independent Dan Osborn by one or two points in polling averages.
Despite charges of her being a secret conservative, Bankhead’s policy positions in this race are far left for a state like Montana. So Bankhead, unlike Bodnar, is in favor of universal background checks for gun transfers. Also, her position on Israel is arguably close to the blood libel: What is being done to the children of Gaza is not an accident of war. A United Nations commission has found it deliberate. I leave it to other threads to argue over which of her lefty positions are right or wrong for America. But they are an electoral disaster in Montana.
Did you mean to link to a position she holds that’s close to blood libel? And are you under the impression that the blood libel is a far-left position?
Um no. 2024 results TX Trump by 13, LA Trump by 22, AR Trump by 30. OK Trump by 34, The generic ballot has shifted 10-12 points towards the Democrats from 2024, which puts Texas within 1-3. Cornyn maybe would be up a couple point instead behind a couple points, but no matter what it would have been competitive..
“Arguably” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. It’s arguable in the same way that it’s “arguably” a call for replacing vaccines with intravenous lemonade slushies. You didn’t quote her very next line:
There is no sense whatsoever that her actual position is anywhere close to blood libel.
It can be far left or far right. I was looking at Bankhead’s web site, which is hardly far right.
I believe in posting on the issue and ignoring the identity of who I am replying to. But I violated that principle here because I was thought DrDeth might reconsider supporting Bankhead over Bodnar. Since that makes it a personally manipulative post, I apologize for that only.
That’s exactly the point that’s disputed, here. You can’t argue that she’s far left because of the leftist views she holds, and argue that the views she holds are leftist because a leftist holds them.
He just forgot? Doubt it. Cowardice? If if was a normal election, as opposed to one where the other side is pro-dictatorship, I might think that myself. But I suspect that Bodnar talked with political leaders around the state, or at least some associated with his campaign, and did what was politically wiser. As for whether the voters have generally enough information to know what kind of a senator Bodnar would mostly be, I think we know. The Angus King kind. Bankhead? She could also be the Angus King kind, or the Bernie Sanders kind, or she could, in the one in a million chance she wins, wind up an oddball like Kyrsten Sinema.
To me, that gimmick could actually backfire. I mean, $10? In this economy? That’s what, slightly over two gallons? I couldn’t fill my gas can with that.
I honestly find that bizarre–the two lines are completely in line with what millions of folks believe and aren’t remotely difficult to reconcile–but I don’t think we can argue that without going too far afield.
So could anyone. Do you have any evidence at all that she’s more likely to do so than literally any other candidate running for Senate for the first time?
> Kurt Alme has an 8-point lead over Seth Bodnar in Montana’s four-candidate U.S. Senate race with Alani Bankhead and Kyle Austin trailing the leader by wide margins, according to a Montana Free Press-Rutgers Eagleton poll.
The poll of 845 registered voters was conducted Aug. 27 to Sept. 7. When asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, 38% of respondents said they’d vote for Alme, while 30% said they’d vote for Bodnar.
Meanwhile, just 16% of respondents said they’d vote for Democrat Bankhead, while 5% said they’d vote for Libertarian Austin.
So the polling does show a win for Alne. But it also shows Bodnar over Bankhead. So, not so big of a polling failure.
Well, yes Roth- the Dem Nominee did withdraw-
But as you said, the GOP incumbent was a shoe in. Nebraska, again, yes the Dem nominee withdrew as she said she could not win.
Yeah, this does not seem like a big issue there.
Bankhead’s faith became an issue when Bodnar’s campaign tried to connect her to positions taken by a church she said she hasn’t regularly attended since 1999, and last visited in 2019. The conservative agenda of her book’s publisher, Genesis Publishing House, is part of that critique.
Two unaffiliated super PACs spent heavily to raise Bankhead’s profile in the primary election. More Jobs, Less Government, a conservative super PAC that spent $22 million to benefit Republican Tim Sheehy in Montana’s 2024 Senate race, spent more than $907,995 on ads promoting Bankhead in the primary, and more than $1 million opposing Democrat Reilly Neill. By law, super PAC spending is conducted without coordination with candidates or political parties.
A second super PAC, Progressive Vet, reported in amended 24-hour independent expense filings spending $2.3 million on primary election ads and services supporting Bankhead and $194,939 opposing Neill. Details about Progressive Vet’s backers are scarce. Most of its money has been attributed to Contours Inc., a newly created corporation registered in Delaware, where it will not have to disclose its officers before March 2027. The PAC’s treasurer is Moffie Funk, a former Democratic legislator from Helena who has hosted a fundraiser for Bodnar.
I think the idea is that if it cost, say, $30 to fill up your tank (depending on your vehicle and how empty it was) if you had a $10 gas card it was cutting the price of gas by 1/3. Which would feel closer to the price of gas as it was before Trump went and screwed it all up.
I’m not saying it’s a solid strategy though, and I agree it could definitely backfire. “Candidate’s wife tries to bribe people at a gas station” sounds bad whether it’s legal or not and can turn people off.
Also it kind of highlights the problem that Republicans have caused. “If Trump wasn’t president, this is how much you’d be saving at the pump.” Is a bold choice for your midterm closing message as a Republican.