It’s poll week here at Montana Free Press. We’re publishing results from an MTFP-Eagleton poll we’ve conducted in late December and early January as part of our ongoing Montana Insights project, examining Montana voters’ opinions on everything from a statewide sales tax (not popular) to the geographic of eastern Montana (mixed takes) and the president’s immigration agenda (quite controversial).  We’ll be rolling out those and other poll results over several days in the form of stories on our website, montanafreepress.org — and rounding up some of the most interesting takeaways with updates to this post between March 2 and March 6, 2026. Here’s what we’ve got: Most Montana voters don’t want a statewide sales tax Nearly half of respondents, 48% indicated that they “strongly” oppose a statewide sales tax even if the revenue is used to reduce property tax bills. That sentiment was firmly bipartisan, with only 34% of Republicans, 38% of Democrats and 32% of independents voicing support for a sales tax. READ MORE Montana voters overwhelmingly view cost as a major hurdle in accessing mental health care Montana voters named cost as a major perceived barrier to mental health care access. Fewer respondents rated physical distance and stigma as a significant hurdle. READ MORE ‘The mostly flat part’: what our poll respondents say about where Eastern Montana really begins A question on how to divide Montana’s eastern region from its western one didn’t produce a clear consensus. The top selections for a dividing line were quite literally hundreds of miles apart — Billings and the Continental Divide. READ MORE The post Poll week: How Montanans feel about sales tax, immigration and state officials appeared first on Montana Free Press. ...read more read less