I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the song references the 1968 election. The speaker offers that the reason Nixon beat Humphries is because of charisma (this is a Nixon who who had lost to Kennedy because of his lack of it), and that this was his secret weapon.
The lines: "Traffic cops are all color blind./ People steal from their own kind" seem to refer to the chaos at 1968 Democratic Convention or perhaps the turmoil of the late 60's where the police weren't just clubbing black Civil Rights protestors but white protestors as well, a period that also saw hundreds of cities plagued with riots.
The question of who's the campaigner is ambiguous. I'm gonna say he's campaigning for Nixon, but it just as equally go the other way. He was too late to cause the stir of social unrest and calls of changes agitated by the protests. The fact that he's a lonely visitor may mean that he doesn't agree with Nixon, but is doing it to do something.
But that fact that Nixon can win it is something that takes him by surprise. His significant other or friend wept at the election results and he has been unable to sleep from it all.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the song references the 1968 election. The speaker offers that the reason Nixon beat Humphries is because of charisma (this is a Nixon who who had lost to Kennedy because of his lack of it), and that this was his secret weapon.
The lines: "Traffic cops are all color blind./ People steal from their own kind" seem to refer to the chaos at 1968 Democratic Convention or perhaps the turmoil of the late 60's where the police weren't just clubbing black Civil Rights protestors but white protestors as well, a period that also saw hundreds of cities plagued with riots.
The question of who's the campaigner is ambiguous. I'm gonna say he's campaigning for Nixon, but it just as equally go the other way. He was too late to cause the stir of social unrest and calls of changes agitated by the protests. The fact that he's a lonely visitor may mean that he doesn't agree with Nixon, but is doing it to do something.
But that fact that Nixon can win it is something that takes him by surprise. His significant other or friend wept at the election results and he has been unable to sleep from it all.