{"id":296,"date":"2006-05-25T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2006-07-19T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T19:04:15","slug":"my-bet-with-will-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"My bet with Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with my old buddy Jerry and Will Munger Jr. today. We got talking about the race for Congress in the 8th District and I said that Oberstar was lucky that Grams picked such a crumby year for Republicans to run against him. When he asked me how much Oberstar would win by I predicted that it would be less than 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Will asked how come. I said that Grams would campaign hard name recognition and money and that Oberstar was a poor campaigner. I said that prognosticators who kept pointing out that Oberstar hadn&#8217;t gotten less than 65% of the vote since his 59% showing in 1992 didn&#8217;t appreciate how weak his opponants had been since 1992. Off hand I can&#8217;t remember a single one of his more recent challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Will bet me a dinner that Grams wouldn&#8217;t get more than 40% of the vote. I told him that I&#8217;d be willing to bet that Oberstar wouldn&#8217;t get 60%. I pointed out that the difference was that I expected there could be an independent candidate in which case neither Grams or Oberstar would make that percentage. Will said he&#8217;d probably lose the bet. I hope so. I&#8217;d like a free meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/HWRepublican\/congressor92.htm\">As for 1992<\/a>. I remember that election very well. I was an independent candidate running aginst both the Republican, Phil Herwig, and Oberstar. I got 7 percent of the vote and a fellow named Floyd Henspetter got 3%. I stopped running when the local Ross Perot people got mad at me. I&#8217;d listed my party as the &#8220;Perot Choice&#8221; party. I hadn&#8217;t asked anybody&#8217;s permission so that riled them up. this year I figure an independent candidate could do even better.\u00c2\u00a0Its likely to be an\u00c2\u00a0anti-incumbent election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with my old buddy Jerry and Will Munger Jr. today. We got talking about the race for Congress in the 8th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47,21,30,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}