Hiding in plain sight: the low-risk campaign of Republican frontrunner Kurt Alme

Before a shocking switcheroo made Kurt Alme the presumptive frontrunner for only the state’s third open U.S. Senate seat in 64 years, he was the closest thing Montana Republicans had to a human crescent wrench: an unassuming, Harvard-educated, small-town guy, agreeable and adaptable to whatever task was asked of him. Now Alme is flying under the radar as the unchallenged conservative candidate in a state where Republicans have won all but two of the last 26 statewide or federal races. The post...