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| | Missoulian: I-147 vote extracts a new truth - Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 |
 | | Last week's I-147, which would have erased the ban, was rejected by a much larger margin: When the votes were counted, I-147 had been defeated by a 16-point margin, 42 percent to 58 percent. |
 | | In Yellowstone County, I-147 was trounced by a 37-63 percent count. |
 | | Maybe Montanans saw I-147 as a chance to cast an early vote between two different versions of Montana's future economy - one in which mining and other extractive industries continue to be the dominant force in the state's economy, and another in which a clean environment itself becomes an economic draw. |
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