And then there was one...

The AP is projecting Jon Tester to win the Montana Senate race, unseating incumbent Conrad Burns. Senator Burns had been plagued with questions about his ties to everyone's favorite lobbyist, Jack Abramoff (One of Abramoff's aides quipped to a reporter that "Sen. Burns would have starved were it not for us.")

The environmental community has long been at odds with the Senator, who has a dismal LCV score and has often voted to open public lands to drilling. Conservationists in Montana, it seems, have spoken by sending Jon Tester to the Senate.

Here is what Mr. Tester has to say about international policies on reducing global warming emissions,

I support responsible international action to limit global warming emissions, including a properly designed cap-and-trade system, and it is appropriate for industrialized nations to lead the way on international efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions. The United States must act in concert with other nations - industrialized and developing- to ensure that the economic costs of responsible actions on global warming do not accrue disproportionately to the United States.

The Senate now sits at 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independents who both say will caucus with the Democrats. Senate control now hinges on the Virginia race, which, at the moment, Jim Webb holds by a roughly 7,000 vote margin.

MW