MT-PPP: Tossup

[free my dawg]

Racicot has been too content with DC life to work in there, plus his lead would fall easily to Schweitzer's populist message.
Daines just accepted a position as the central-west regional director for the NRCC. He really doesn't sound interested right now.
As far as I'm concerned, these two are afterthoughts. But in the case Schweitzer actually opts out, I'm actually much more happy to hear that the candidates behind him can hold their own against Stapleton or Edmunds (especially Edmunds, he's a bit too conservative to win even in Montana). Low recog is probably a reason, but I'm hopeful.

[free my dawg]

Judging from his Wikipedia article, Stapleton sounds like quite the rising star (and Edmunds quite the kook). I do hope he wins, or at least pushes Schweitzer's margin of victory into the low single digits.

I've crawled his Facebook page, and you should be a little concerned with the fact that he's said the sequester doesn't cut far enough. But other than that and throwing around comparisons to the Soviet Union when Montanans want to expand welfare, haven't seen much.