we have lots of ways to remember la follett but i do know about him especially some interesting things when i became a member of the u.s. senate so i admired his political legacy but something very small that i learned there is a tradition in the senate to make a big deal about your first floor speech you are supposed to wait a few months before you do that many colleagues come and sit and listen which doesn't happen very often. we will use the study what the predecessors' talk about before i gave mine and i learned that la follett senior gave his speech on opposing a railroad regulation bill because it did not go far enough and he is known for fighting the monopoly at the time. his maiden speech was three days. and he antagonized some of his colleagues by take such a long time he was not filibustering but to make his point the galleries are filled at that time. en to use those populist themes of today i promised my colleagues it would not take three days speesix depressive what does that mean? >> give us those major issues. >> i do think overlap of populism and progressivism about res

is a well-known individual, especially in the 20th century, you know, teddy roosevelt was a follette, robert laenator who was well-known , george wallace was the governor of alabama. ross perot, people knew him as a texas ilya nair. he had been in the news. he was on the larry king show when he announced he was going to run for president, kind of out of the blue. ralph nader was well-known from 2000 because he had been a consumer advocate. he had written books and articles. people knew him. so they had celebrity, and that helped propel them into the news . they get some support from it. now there have been a couple of parties that have gotten very small percent of the vote that have changed the outcomes of the elections. we know about ralph nader in 2000 in florida. if nader had not been in the race, al gore would have won florida by 20,000 votes approximately. he lost by 500, and that would have turned around the election in gore's favor. i doubt whether gore would have gone into iraq. we might not have had the 2008 financial meltdown with a democrat. 1844, there was a candidate by the name of