Tonight's Radio Open Source show (on NPR) to feature Montana Senate race
At 4 p.m. Pacific, the syndicated NPR show Radio Open Source will feature the Tester/Burns race for a full hour.
Just how liberal is Tester, really? He’s pro-choice and pro-environment, but he’s also pro-gun. Definitely not East Coast liberal. But are he and Schweitzer a new breed — “Western Democrats” — or are they just dyed-in-the-wool Montanans? In other words: populists, because Montana Democrats were born in opposition to the the Anaconda Copper Company that controlled Montana — its newspapers, its politics, its industry — for years; and libertarian, because although Montana’s no longer a frontier, it’s still faaaaar away from any kind of big city? You could also imagine, though, that Tester and Schweitzer are bellwethers for the “purpling” of other Western states (the result of big demographic changes).
At about 4:40 p.m. Pacific, I'll join the show to expand the conversation from Montana to talk about how Western Democrats are taking over the West, and what that means for 2006, 2008, and beyond.
More about today's show here - and listen live via WGBH here.
Kari Chisholm | November 1, 2006 | Comment on This Post (0 so far) |
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