The Campaigns’ Witching Hour

It’s the witching hour. How are the campaigns? Let’s take a look.

You can expect Amanda Curtis to draw the people in Butte, which is where she is here. She had them lining up there a week or so ago, as you can see in this image here. 

This house here is in Livingston, and even in that small setting Amanda Curtis really has a drawing power.

Here she is at the University of Montana University Center, chatting with some students, probably discussing the Steve Daines budget plan.

Here’s one up in Hill County. Now, there’s a lot of Republicans up there – although my grandpa served from the Senate there – so you have to figure the turnout will be a little smaller.

Regardless, it’s a pretty good crowd…although…is that John Lewis standing there in the front row?

This last image of Curtis is at a Butte football game a few weeks back or so. I’m not sure who’s in it, but it seems to me that younger guy is either checking Curtis out or a Daines supporter…it’s hard to tell the difference.

Here we have a great shot of Senator Jon Tester, Governor Steve Bullock, Amanda Curtis there next in line, and then John Lewis in the background. Looks like they’re on a reservation somewhere.

Here’s another great shot just recently, one of Tester campaigning with John Lewis somewhere.

Here’s another good one of Lewis, this time at the Fort Peck Community College.

Here you can see John Lewis in Helena this past week, really packing them in. He can draw the crowd, unlike Daines, who draws a room.

Sometimes when no one's there you get the best practice

This one here’s at Fort Belknap, and this one below is just a great image of John Lewis and his son.

The ‘witching hour’ is commonly thought to fall around midnight, although most ghost hunters say it’s really around 3 AM.

I can attest to this – last year when I was working until 5 AM or so I’d go outside to smoke a lot, and the veil between the realms and dimensions and waking world and that unseen was much more thin than at other times.

Witches, demons and worse are about at this time, and perhaps even more ominous, our unchecked minds.

Darkness allows a lot of things to come to light, things we’d rather not see, and which we often don’t, but which are there nonetheless, buried deep, hidden, despised and possibly forgotten. If you keep your eyes on the darkness long enough you can discern shapes and flutters and shimmerings of light.

This is of course the mind playing tricks on us, the retina reacting to light or the lack thereof. Science has the answers, always has, even when we were too ignorant to know it.

But that doesn’t mean those hackles on the back of your neck don’t rise, or those stars seem to jump from one spot to the next if you’re not looking right at ‘em...or at 'em right.

Black magic comes to the fore during the witching hour, and I think these campaigns might be having some used against them just now...or maybe they need to use some.

What can be done? I guess you just have to keep staring into that darkness and hope you can find some light.