Barack Obama’s town hall in the Bozeman, Montana area is not as ‘bold’ of a trip into the Wild West as described by Politico’s Carole E. Lee this morning.
Bozeman, Montana is a college town with many resident yuppies and is a home for multi-millionaires looking to buy their own piece of the West.
Although the event is in the Bozeman suburb of Belgrade, a short drive takes you to the popular Big Sky Ski Resort or to the Yellowstone Club, a posh invitation-only playground for millionares. Although it’s since gone bankrupt, at one time it cost a minimum of $250,000 to join, plus the cost of a $5 million to $35 million mountainside home.
Billionaire Ted Turner owns hundreds of thousands of acres in the area and his local buffalo burger joint has already created their $10 Obama burger in anticipation of our burger loving president’s visit.
Gallatin county was blue enough to support Barack Obama in the 2008 election and over 70% of voters supported Democratic Senator Max Baucus.
You can bet with hundreds of people sleeping overnight to get town hall tickets, Obama’s biggest fans are going to make it in.
Although I fully expect conservatives in Montana to make an appearance, my guess is that their anger will surface in the form of outside protests, leaving the tone of the town hall similar to the one held in New Hampshire.
