Two Democrats remain in the primary for Montana’s Eastern Congressional District: Brian Miller and Sam Lux. The winner will join Libertarian Patrick McCracken and possibly independent Mike Eisenhauer in challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Troy Downing in the Nov. 3 general election. But no matter who emerges from the primary with the Democratic nomination, political prognosticators agree, they’ll have neither history, money, or momentum on their side. “I don’t really see a way that a Democrat would win that seat,” says Jessi Bennion, a political scientist who teaches at Montana State University and Carroll College.
