Sen. Max Baucus angered many Democrats back home in Montana when he voted last week against a "public option" in the health care reform legislation working its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
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Posted by Kristin Gorski - via Google News (Lobbying)
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John Adams is a quality reporter who has often taken on the powers in Montana. I would have liked Adams to talk to one more source outside the Democratic Party machine in the state. The head of the labor union, Feaver, was a good source. One more Baucus skeptic might have given a little more balance to the conventional wisdom of Bergren, Elliott and Sabato.
The idea that the people of Montana will forget what happened in the Finance Committee is also conventional wisdom that may not work this time around. But it is what Baucus is counting on.
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