"I don't know a thing about him," he said of the Minnesota Senator.

"I'm just back for some fun - honest," the former Minnesota Senator said, flashing that familiar twinkle in the basement of a Manchester restaurant, Bob Dylan protesting earnestly in background music.

Both Minnesota Senators in the 1980's were Republicans, and opponents of gun control and abortion are well organized.

"This is the highest-ranking Democratic organization that's let me talk to them for 20 years," said Mr. McCarthy, the former Minnesota Senator who was making his first appearance with the other candidates.

However, a televised debate between them began to tilt undecided voters away from the Minnesota Senator.

The decision is not expected to thwart the former Minnesota Senator, who is running at the moment in four states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan and Minnesota.

Colorado governor Richard Lamm, and former Minnesota Senator and Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy both took up immigration reduction as an issue.

Minnesota Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps:

The former Minnesota Senator got 30,074 votes.

Ernest Lundeen - Former Minnesota Senator.