obama did well all throughout the state of montana. his best performance was in big horn county which contains native american reservations, where he received 78.09 percent, and gallatin county, which contains bozeman, the home of montana state university. he was able to rack up the numbers by winning the more populous counties of yellowstone county, which contains billings, as well as missoula county which contains left-leaning missoula. clinton performed best in some of the lesser populated and far more conservative rural counties in eastern montana, but also performed strongly in silver bow county, which contains butte, as well as deer lodge county which contains anaconda.