Things aren't going so well for Sen. John Walsh (D) back home in Montana, after it was reported two weeks ago that his 2007 master's thesis at the Army War College was extensively plagiarized from other sources. In the latest development, the state's two biggest newspapers both published editorials on Sunday calling upon Walsh to drop out of the Senate race.
The state's largest paper, the Billings Gazette, wrote, "Having repeatedly said that he wants to do the honorable thing, Walsh should stop campaigning and do his utmost to serve Montanans well in the remainder of his brief Senate appointment. That is the honorable course." The paper acknowledged that this would all but cost Democrats the race, since "there is no replacement candidate who could jump in and run a competitive campaign in the little time left before voting starts."
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