New opportunity in the Senate: Montana Senator Jon Tester votes "no" on ending govt shutdown.

http://archive.is/TMJ3g

definitely a good campaign talking point for any R competitors

NPR said Tester will keep his seat because no real GOP candidate has entered the race

I swear to God no one ever responds to any of my comments on here

@Den >NPR

They're not wrong.

There don't seem to be many well-known candidates running.

In particular, only 2 have any notability from statewide elections.

1 was a candidate for Lt. Gov., where I assume he lost the primary, and the other was elected Auditor in 2016.

yeah but that doesn't mean Tester will definitely win

Yeah not necessarily but it's a huge indicator IMO; for instance, the actual right-wingers in Louisiana's 2016 Senate election were all defeated by a moderate just because he held the post of Treasurer.

Fortunately, Louisiana got a Republican Senator, even though he's a moderate one.

Another example is MN, where they're rating the regular election seat as "Solid D" while rating the special election seat as "likely D / tossup"

There's just no Republicans running to unseat the non-appointed incumbent.

it's still early

Indeed.

Hopefully, the situation improves.

What we need is fresh faces, charismatic candidates in the right wing to take over the GOP

Kind of like fuentes or one of those guys, good orators

We gotta keep this house seat for slammin' Gianforte.