Tester again, seemed to fall back on the “we need to work together” line that so called mod­er­ates use alot.

Mygod. He sounds just like Romney last Wednesday night.

Rehberg seems to think so

Well, yeah. Show me a candidate who doesn’t seem to think that his/her competitor isn’t out of step ideologically with constituents.

Well, Rehberg seems to think so, as he had a more partisan delivery. He did take pretty strong stances on the estate tax, Simpson Bowles, and the flat tax. Tester again, seemed to fall back on the “we need to work together” line that so called moderates use alot. I don’t recall many hard policy stances—except one on wolves. Anyway, like Liz Warren (and unlike Akin), I think Rehberg passed the “is he senate material” test—which is key for any challenger.

I’ll answer here the question from the other previous blog entry.  Comment is still fritzed up.

Pew has apparently switch from registered to likely voters from what was said on PBS Newshour last night by their rep.

For­mat­ting is messed up in the pre­ced­ing topic sec­tion. The bot­tom ban­ner obscures access to post button.

I’ve seen that from time to time, but not consistently enough to debug the problem.

What’s a bit per­plex­ing about a lot of the polling data, at least as cap­tured on 538, is that the ker­fuf­fle between Obama Rom­ney doesn’t seem to changed the Sen­ate trend line much there.

I noticed the same thing. It appeared that Obama’s coattails were pulling up other Democratic Senate candidates. Perhaps it was less the candidate himself than the messages of the two national conventions.

Incum­bent Chris Mur­phy?

Thanks for catching that. My error rate has been on the rise lately as I’ve been trying to keep up with the data and still have time to keep my day job.

Rehberg and Tester debated last night.

Yes they did. I found out about it after I had put the article (and myself) to bed. I’m not so sure that Tester is out of step ideologically with Montanans; the story there is more complex than in other states, as Montana is more of the libertarian sort than the socon sort.

RCP has 11 tossups!

They do. I think their tossup band is way too large for being this late in the race.

Formatting is messed up in the preceding topic section.  The bottom banner obscures access to post button.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157955/romney-obama-among-likely-voters.aspx