{"id":479,"date":"2006-07-19T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2006-10-23T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:46:08","slug":"the-none-of-the-above-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;none of the above&#8221; candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in ecstasy. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/candidates.sos.state.mn.us\/CandidateFilingSearchResults.asp?x=5\">only three candidates<\/a> for 8th District Congress. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been hoping for. Now all disaffected voters will be able to focus their votes on a single candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992 when I also ran as an independent for the same office <a href=\"http:\/\/college.hmco.com\/polisci\/resources\/psn\/students\/documents\/92_fed_stats.html\">I had to split this vote (which was ten percent of the total) with Floyd Henspetter<\/a>. My party was the &#8220;Perot Choice&#8221; party and his was the &#8220;Term Limits&#8221; party. I got better than 70 % of the none of the above vote but not all of it. In fact, that&#8217;s what I jokingly told folks when I gathered my petition signatures. I told them that I was the &#8220;none of the above&#8221; candidate.<\/p>\n<p>More than in 1992 none of the above will look good to people who want a little purple put back into an America split into Red and Blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in ecstasy. There are only three candidates for 8th District Congress. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been hoping for. Now all disaffected voters will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}