Which are already surprisingly close (for Obama); it could swing things; we'll already be spending money to get out Democratic votes to help elect Begich and Berkowitz in Alaska, and re-elect Schweitzer, Baucus and elect Jim Hunt in Montana.

I see no reason not to do a semi-coordinated campaign in those states.

MT and AK tend to be the best targets for third-party candidates [and Nader wasn't all Democrats, although it was disproportionately that; there were definitely some independents and maybe one or two Repubs for him], Nader and Perot did quite well there proportionately in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004.

R0n P4v1 got 2.74% of the vote in AK in 1988, 1.38% in MT, while getting only 0.47% nationwide.

David Bergland (libertarian) got 1.35% in MT, 3.07% in AK while getting 0.25% nationwide.

1980. Ed Clark (libertarian) got 11.66% of the vote in Alaska, John Anderson got 7.04% (still slightly more than nationwide)

while Montana gave 8.05% to John Anderson to 2.70% to Clark.