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Depending on the Independents: Useful Politics in Super-Majority States
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Depending on the Independents: Useful Politics in Super-Majority States

What do efforts to ban hunting and fishing (Oregon's IP-28) have to do with Montana running an Independent (Seth Bodnar) for Senate?

Politically, Montana and Oregon look like mirror images of each other. Montana Republicans have a near-super majority in the legislature and holds all statewide offices. In Oregon Democrats have all that power.

How does that play out? The left of center politics of Oregonian Joel and Montanan Leo look at these structures, in particular the militant vegan politics of Oregon’s IP 28 and the legitimate independent candidate for Senate in Montana Seth Bodnar.

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