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Obama holds rally in Montana during Fourth of July

BUTTE, Mont. - It was a family Fourth of July for Democrat Barack Obama as his wife, daughters, sister and other relatives helped him make an Independence Day play for this reliably conservative state.

And while Obama was campaigning, his Republican rival, John McCain, was in Phoenix spending the long holiday weekend at home.

In Montana, Obama paid tribute to a nation in which the son...

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