It looks like Montana’s junior Senator, Jon Tester, is making his way across the United States campaigning.

Maybe we should start calling him “Traveling Tester.”

We reported earlier about Tester’s trip to Maine scheduled for this Friday. According to this story, Tester was in St. Joseph, Missouri, today to campaign for former Kansas City Mayor, the very liberal Kay Barnes. Barnes is running for Congress.

As with the candidate in Maine, the polls are not too favorable. Barnes trails the 6^th District Congressman, Sam Graves, by several points in recent polls. What’s ironic about Tester’s campaign stop is that he is campaigning against a fellow farmer. Congressman Graves is a sixth generation family farmer. Maybe Graves is not an organic farmer and that’s the reason for Tester’s campaign stop for Barnes.

Maybe it was a scheduling issue around barbecue fundraisers and getting to ride in Obama’s plane, but it would have been nice for Tester to schedule these events a little earlier during his 38 day paid vacation and take some time to stop off in Washington, D.C., for some honest and open debate about our nation’s energy problems.