Obama has big lead in Montana poll

By GottaLaff

GObama!

Barack Obama has a healthy 52%-to-35% lead over Hillary Clinton among likely Democratic voters heading into the June 3 Montana primary, according to a Lee Newspapers poll. That’s not a big surprise- Obama has done very well in the Mountain West and the Pacific Northwest, racking up a massive win in Idaho earlier this year and taking the Oregon primary handily last week.

However... and we hate "howevers"...

Yet the Lee poll also shows Obama trailing Republican John McCain in a general election. Indeed, McCain, with his military backround and reputation as something of a maverick, is in many ways a perfect candidate for Montana. Obama hopes to be able to tap the same enthusiasm and independent appeal that enabled Sen. Jon Tester to defeat Conrad Burns in 2006 - but McCain promises to be a more formidable opponent than the scandal-scarred Burns.

First things first. June 3rd, here we come.