{"id":9575,"date":"2013-09-11T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2017-02-27T05:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:49:31","slug":"election-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9575","title":{"rendered":"Election analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I offered the Trib my first analysis a few seconds after getting the vote totals for Nancy Nilsen and me. We were 2nd and 3rd in the at-large vote.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Jana wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/277513\/\">today&#8217;s story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Welty, who was second with At Large vote totals, said he was pleased with the results. He pointed out that he and Nilsen were close in the vote tally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that Nancy and I are so close, maybe the verdict is still out with primary voters on the virtues of the Red Plan,&#8221; he said. (Nilsen was a member of the board that approved the Red Plan in 2007 and Welty has long railed against the fact that residents weren&#8217;t allowed to vote on a plan.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be interesting to see how that will shape up during the general election,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad for a quick assessment.<\/p>\n<p>I think the unions and DFL had a little larger impact on the primary results than they will in the general election. We had a ten percent turnout. With such low numbers dedicated and organized voters can exert more influence just like wacko ideologues do in Republican primaries. The The General Election won&#8217;t be all that much bigger &#8211; maybe 20 or 25% of the registered voters but that should help independents like me and diminish the influence of the special interests.<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple other tidbits of analysis but I&#8217;ll keep them to myself. I don&#8217;t want my challengers to steal a lead on me just because of my blabber fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offered the Trib my first analysis a few seconds after getting the vote totals for Nancy Nilsen and me. We were 2nd and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575"}],"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=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20019,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions\/20019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}