As he campaigned in Butte, Mont., on Independence Day, Senator Barack Obama did not face significant attacks from his rival, Senator John McCain, nor from the Republican National Committee. But that’s not to say the red, Big Sky State is ripe for Mr. Obama’s picking. Some Republicans contend, as The Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman put it, that Mr. Obama’s recent tour through several states that tend to vote Republican is more of a “head fake” than a serious effort to claim new terrain. That said, Montana does have three high-level statewide officeholders, Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester. Mr. Weisman writes: The political currents of the Mountain West will not be easy to navigate. The blend of economic activism and social libertarianism that propelled Schweitzer and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to...
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