Just because Montana is a red state, doesn’t mean residents are satisfied with Republican leadership according to a new annual poll released Tuesday .

Montana State University-Billings, which has conducted the annual Mountain States Poll on residents since 1989, released this year’s results which show few of Montana’s most familiar political faces with a majority of support, while a feeling of polarization persists, despite having common ground across party lines on some politically charged issues.

“It’s a little abnormal to see results this low, this early into a term,” said Hope Dewell Gentry, director of the Mountain States Poll and a political scientist who teaches at the university.

The poll surveyed 854 Montanans prior to the federal government shutdown with 55% saying they vote

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