Deletion of Duane Sand

Comment: Duane Sand fails  but passes the |GNG through the following sources: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/duane-sand-considers-run-for-congress/article_37614d7f-3a90-50bb-b495-7fde8bd8daab.html "Duane Sand considers run for Congress" from Associated Press, http://www.webcitation.org/639MbEPgr "Investor: Sunday Liquor Key To Venture — Duane Sand Intends to Build 120-Seat Restaurant", http://www.webcitation.org/639NAsGin "Sand's Lifelong Goal — Teachers, Friends Call Candidate Goal-Oriented, Determined To Win Senate Seat", and http://www.webcitation.org/639NRUEIQ "Sand Knocks Off Fargo Legislator For U.S. Senate Endorsement" from ''Grand Forks Herald'', and http://www.willistonherald.com/articles/2008/10/28/news/doc490737b5b0470948272960.txt "Sand touts battlefield, business experience" from ''Williston Herald
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)

Comment: per  criteria 2. His repeated runs at statewide office have made his name well known across the state and made him a non-trivial presence in statewide political coverage
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: Perennial candidate who has never held elective office. Currently one of two candidates vying for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012, he does not pass  or , and his http://www.google.com/#q=duane+sand&hl=en&tbm=nws&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=ar:1&sa=X&ei=quq-TvD4A4iCsgKo_uDeBA&ved=0CBMQpwUoCg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3c3ccdbd0a2c5572&biw=1044&bih=678 news mentions are only about his various candidacies, not about him. (I hesitated at first, because at this page, United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2000, about his previous run for the U.S. Senate, his occupation is listed as "state senator". If true that would make him automatically notable as a state legislator, but it does not appear to be true; none of his biographies (for example http://www.duanesand.com/about) say that he was ever in the state senate. So I don't know how that misinformation became part of the election page
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:MILITARY)

Comment: Doesn't meet WP:POL or .  As he ran a few times, there's little benefit in merging this to one of the relevant election articles
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Fails  and no other convincing claim of notability is made
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: One of those rare occasions where a mere candidate gets over the bar, I think. That's because (a) he's been a candidate on numerous occasions; (b) he's essentially run for statewide office, there being only one House seat in his state; and (c) the natural statewide press coverage that such campaigns will generate. The distinction between "sources about the candidate" and "source about the election" is a difficult, and in my view, often unnecessary one, to draw. The real question underlying the purpose of  is: are the sources sufficient to write a biography? In this case, the answer is yes, but admittedly only barely so. I'd add that this article seems to be largely free of the blatant puffery (or hatchet jobs) that often accompanies articles of this kind
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)