{"id":558,"date":"2006-08-10T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T21:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2006-08-10T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T21:58:38","slug":"oberstars-spending-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Oberstar&#8217;s spending advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=James_Oberstar\">Sourcewatch <\/a>graph on\u00c2\u00a0campaign spending by Jim Oberstar and his opponents since I ran against him in 1992 shows that to all intents and purposes he had never faced a serious challenge. Under these circumstances his 65% showing is extremely unimpressive.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=541\">raised over $800,000 this year<\/a> but he only had about $200,000 left to spend a month or two ago. Rod Grams by contrast has already raised over $100,000. Jim isn&#8217;t going to get a free ride this year. Too bad for Rod that Republicans are poison.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/images\/2\/29\/Oberstar_elections.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sourcewatch graph on\u00c2\u00a0campaign spending by Jim Oberstar and his opponents since I ran against him in 1992 shows that to all intents and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}