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With all mail in ballots about 15% more Republican;s look to have voted over Demorats. I hope that trend continues

I sure hope Daines can hold off that d-bag Bullock.

Turnout was a lot better for Republicans with all mail in ballots than regular voting, so I hope so also.

Higher primary turnout in the GOP had two causes:
First, crowded primaries, boiled down to an internal fight between small-potatoes RINOS and limited government conservatives. Most of the RINOs in NW Montana lost, it seems, I'll need to do some more nitpicking.
Second, GOP voters nationwide vote more in primaries than Dems, that's why the D's spend so much on getting out the vote, their people are slugs that need to be flogged to get off the couch. Dem majority districts have lower turnouts than GOP majority areas.

I wouldn't be too optimistic in the general if the universities are full again come fall. In the bubble environment of college, plus the "excitement" of voting for the first time, there are tens of thousands of votes cast by out-of-state Communist students who have no clue about the rest of Montana.

Me too. However, Williams over Rosendale is pretty much a given, in my opinion and a shame to say. What a bummer that will be. We need a similar or geater turnout in the general than we got in the primary and the primary was a good Republican turnout.

Numbers look good for the GOP.

Or put another way, there were 15% more people that voted on the R ballot than on the D. Some of those were surely Ds voting for the R candidate they saw as most beatable by the D candidate. How many, who knows.

Unfortunately for the lone representative seat, a replay of his Senate run. Except Williams may beat him by more than Tester did. Daines needs to get on his A+ game.