{"id":21875,"date":"2017-05-15T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21875"},"modified":"2017-05-15T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:27:49","slug":"with-apologies-to-the-chordettes-bum-bum-bum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21875","title":{"rendered":"With apologies to the Chordettes &#8211; Bum bum bum &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CX45pYvxDiA\">&#8230;bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Sandman<br \/>\nAre you a bad dream?<br \/>\nKnock off a Congressman<br \/>\nto elect one who&#8217;s Mean.<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll work for corporatists<br \/>\nrolling in clover<br \/>\nDestroying life on Earth till it&#8217;s-all-over?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see in the Trib<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4266951-sandman-announces-congressional-campaign\"> that Skip Sandman<\/a>, who ran for Congress in 2014 is throwing his hat in the Congressional race again for 2018. He got 4% of the vote the first time as a candidate for the Green Party. If he got that many in 2018 he might be able to snatch victory away from a Democratic candidate. Nolan only beat Mills in 2016 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/minnesota-house-district-8-nolan-mills\">a scant 2 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such considerations don&#8217;t much trouble third party candidates like George Wallace, who helped elect Richard Nixon, or Ralph Nader, who did in Al Gore, <em>and I should know!<\/em> They didn&#8217;t bother me. I ran for the same seat in Congress that Skip is after in both 1992 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiamn.com\/news\/welty-once-again-takes-on-don-quixote-role\/article_77bd4dc3-33e8-5535-9574-45ec221d31e8.html\">and 2006<\/a> as a third party choice. <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/member_info\/electioninfo\/1992\/92Stat.htm\">In the first race<\/a> I did even better than Skip&#8217;s 4% winning 7% of the vote:<\/p>\n<p><strong>James L. Oberstar, Democratic-Farmer-Labor\t167,104<br \/>\nPhil Herwig, Independent-Republican\t83,823<br \/>\nHarry Robb Welty, Perot Choice\t22,619<br \/>\nFloyd A. Henspeter, Term Limits Candidate\t8,602<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ragnar%C3%B6k\">Ragnar\u00f6k<\/a> will provide a safe cushion for the incumbent Nolan but I&#8217;m not so sure how an unknown replacement for Nolan will affect the General election race a year from now. FUN FACT &#8211; Minnesota Populist politician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ragnarok:_The_Age_of_Fire_and_Gravel\">Ignatius Donnelly <\/a>penned a fairly popular novel by that name in the 1880&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum Mr. Sandman Are you a bad dream? Knock off a Congressman to elect one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21875"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21894,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875\/revisions\/21894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}