According to my latest reader survey, 14-30 year-olds comprise 35% of my readership. Holla!

Whoa, Mike. Forward Montana registered, educated, and mobilized young voters, but we didn't endorse any federal candidates, much less work with them.

We did endorse and work alongside two state legislative candidates.

I'd give to him based on this appeal, but I had the fortune of meeting Steve (very briefly) about a year ago at a ballot issue summit. This Montana boy is already in for $15. I'll do whatever else I can to help.

Left in the West in Montana has diaries.

Montana Netroots doesn't -- and it also has some conservative contributors. It's a good site, I'm just not sure it's progressive or a community site.

Check out what we sent to Michigan legislators today on the net neutrality front. Matt has warned that this battle will now go to the states.

We're ready to help fight those battles.

He's right. You're an idiot. You couldn't even get the law of demand right. The law is when the price of something increase, the quantity demanded decreases. Demand itself only changes due to other changes in the underlying system (demand for labor may increase, for example, when there is more work to be done; quantity demand for labor will increase when labor becomes cheaper).

Go learn some econ before you start spouting off in diaries like this one. You don't even know the 101 terminology.

Economics is natural law? That's one of the dumbest statements I think I have ever read regarding economics.

Honestly, it's a social science and a behavioral science. Its "laws" are mutable and heavily based on culture.

That may explain why a lot of econ Nobel laureates disagree with you.

Go read a book.

Check the tracking on Joe Lieberman. As recently as one year ago, his approval was 68%.

Senators' numbers are almost always soft. They just don't have to campaign often enough and they get lazy.

I don't doubt the national trends, but the Montana race is showing precisely the opposite - Tester up in likely voter surveys and tied or slightly down in registered voter surveys.

We nominated a good man who has the base excited out here. Critical youth-heavy areas of the state are poised to turn out in force. And Tester's approval is staying high, which bodes well for us even if the electorate expands.

You've got Tester and Baucus doubled up on two committees--pretty unlikely. I'm not sure how often a state has double representation on committees, but my impression is that the preference is to spread the love and influence a bit.

David Cay Johnston is a truly impressive reporter and kudos for picking this up.

sdedo -- you can't multiple a 40 hour work week by 24 hours a day and assume a non-stop work year.

It's more like:

157 attorneys * $2,200/attorney hour * 40 hours/week * 50 work weeks/year = $690,800,000/year

Still huge. Especially for the investment. Even if these are high-paid employees by federal standard, this is an outstanding return on investment.

We shouldn't interpret this as a defeat. It's just a setback and it may not even survive an appeal.

I just wanted to provide a few more links to Montana blogs covering this race:

Wulfgar's Mountain View
Intelligent Discontent
4&20 Blackbirds

Tuesday.

We got a weekend, a Monday, and Montana votes.

Still a day of good press for JT.