Republicans hope looks don’t matter in Montana race against Sen. Jon Tester

Jon Tester looks like Montana.

The Democratic senator weighs in somewhere north of 300 pounds, sports a flat-top haircut, and still works his late grandparent’s farm with his callused, seven-fingered hands after the spinning blades of an industrial meat grinder separated him from three of his fingers long ago.

Anyone arguing that a burly man like Tester has succumbed to the decadence of Washington, D.C., has their work cut out for them. Naturally enough, that job falls to the Republican National Senate Committee.

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