Denny Rehberg for Senate

As six consecutive polls show him leading incumbent Democrat Jon Tester in Montana's U.S. Senate race, Congressman Denny Rehberg today reported raising over $1.2 million in the first quarter of 2012 with over $2.7 million cash-on-hand.

"Six consecutive polls show Denny in the lead, and our strong fundraising will enable us to continue getting our message out to folks here in Montana," said Rehberg campaign manager Erik Iverson.  "After running on an anti-lobbyist platform, Tester has taken more campaign cash from lobbyists than any other member of Congress this election cycle, but no amount of money will distract Montana voters from Tester's 95 percent support for President Obama's costly, liberal agenda."

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As he cast the deciding vote to pass President Obama's health care law, Senator Jon Tester said it would "save taxpayers a lot of money" and claimed it "improved health care for Montanans by... cutting the federal deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars."

But the Washington Post reports today that a new analysis, "by Charles Blahous, a conservative policy analyst whom Obama approved in 2010 as the GOP trustee for Medicare and Social Security," shows that "President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade..."

A new voter survey taken yesterday by Rasmussen Reports shows Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, leading incumbent Democrat Senator Jon Tester by a margin of 47 percent to 44 percent.

This is the sixth poll in a row to show Rehberg leading Tester, who has faced relentless criticism in Montana for his record of 95 percent support for the deeply unpopular agenda of President Barack Obama.

New reports show that the anti-job environmental obstructionist group leading the fight to kill the Keystone XL pipeline has opened campaign offices to aid the re-election bid of Senator Jon Tester.  As Politico reports:

The "League of Conservation Voters has spent out more than $79,000 so far this year on a canvassing program in Montana to boost Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s re-election bid. LCV is renting offices in Billings and Missoula as home bases for the mailing and door-to-door operations. Tester’s campaign is one of the group’s top priorities this year, and its efforts to back him are just getting started, said LCV’s vice president of communications, Mike Palamuso.

Flash back to this headline from earlier this year: “LCV Applauds The Obama Administration’s Rejection Of The Keystone XL Pipeline”

On the second anniversary of President Barack Obama and Senator Jon Tester's massive health care law, Montanans are reminded that Tester ignored their voices and cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the costly, unpopular overhaul — with harmful consequences for Montana's families and job creators...

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments next week on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama and Senator Jon Tester's costly, unpopular health care overhaul, a new survey by the Washington Post and ABC News reveals that a majority of Americans continue to object to the law — particularly its onerous "individual mandate." ...