In four Senate seats this cycle (Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska) the Democrats, with the active collusion of the media, are running fake independents for the Senate, having pushed their own nominees to withdraw because they know just how toxic their brand is in these states, and they will do anything to win. But in Montana, Democrat nominee Alani Bankhead, to the surprise of the party bosses, refused to play along, and having been duly nominated in a competitive primary (which saw only 58,000 fewer voters than the GOP primary), has stayed in the race, thus thwarting the dirty tricks of the party bosses and creepy "independent" candidate Seth Bodnar. While Bankhead should be lauded for not giving in to bribes or blackmail, it remains the fact that the Democrats fake independent strategy (and the media's willingness to run cover for them) shows that they both have utter contempt for the democratic process and the voters from these states that they are claiming to represent.