According to the Wall Street Journal, over 30 aides to Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat and Senate Finance Committee chairman, are in Nevada working to save Harry Reid’s re-election bid.

The sending of Baucus aides to the Silver State might be the cause of some chagrin to Democrats back home in Montana. Aaron Flint of Montana’s Northern News Network phrases it this way: “As local legislative Democrats appear to be on the verge of losing both houses of the state legislature, two of the state’s top Democratic hitters are sending their cash and their ground troops elsewhere.”

Indeed, the Montana statehouse is divided evenly 50-50, and as the state’s Democrat attorney general (and likely 2012 gubernatorial contender) notes, “We have legislative races that come down to five or six votes. So, you could actually be that vote that makes a difference.”

To put it in perspective, the Montana Democratic Party has perhaps a dozen field operatives working in the state, a mere fraction of the the Baucus Force that’s been deployed to help Reid. No doubt Sen. Baucus’s help, if it had been forthcoming, would have been appreciated.