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BUTTE, Mont. – On presidential campaigns, most visits to cities – no matter how picturesque or steeped in history – are essentially drive-bys. The candidate lands, delivers a speech, meets with a few local politicians and is on to the next town before dinnertime.
Here in Butte, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance and the Continental Divide only a few miles away, that was not the case for Senator Barack Obama. He spent a portion of three days in this city as he concluded a weeklong political swing through five red states.
“I’m trying to think if there’s a better setting anywhere in America to celebrate the Fourth of July than this view right here,” Mr. Obama told supporters who were sitting on a grassy field against a backdrop of rugged mountains and an endless sky.
