With the Nov. 6 general election less than a week away, it seems like Delaware's political candidates will stop at nothing to get votes.

But only one — that we know of — has gone as far as composing his own rap song.

Demitri Theodoropoulos, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate and owner of Wonderland Records in Newark, lays down some sick beats in a new YouTube video espousing his political views and urging Delawareans to "Vote for D!" on Nov. 6.

He's running against incumbent Tom Carper, Republican Rob Arlett and Liberation Party candidate Nadine Frost.

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"Democrat. Republican. Hell no! We don't want none of them," Theodoropoulos intones in a demonstration that is, may we say, surprisingly off the hook.

"I'm Demitri, and I'm the one to vote for," he raps. "Going to go to D.C, going to do a lot more for, the people, not special interests. They only care about the very richest.

"We got the plan. Let's make the change. We're not the man. We're not the same. We're independent, free from strings that move the puppets on your TV screen. They talk too much. They don't say a lot. I'll uphold your views because I can't be bought. One term's enough. That's all we'll need. It won't be tough to make history."

A two-month effort

Theodoropoulos is a University of Delaware engineering graduate and small business owner who wants to limit campaign contributions in any form, whether to a political candidate or party, PAC, or any other politically-interested entity; establish term limits for members of Congress, who currently can serve as often as they are elected; and place checks and balances on lobbyists by forcing them to be accompanied by at least one disinterested voting constituent, chosen at random, when talking to legislators.

He made the video to help spread his message to more people. His business includes a recording studio.

"Basically, as a Green Party guy, I don't have the money to put TV ads on," he said. "We can make all the radio ads we want, but we can't afford to put them out there."

“The idea came that we needed to do things on a grassroots level and make it go viral.”

So he brought in a couple friends who are also musicians and recorded a track.

"It took about two months to write the rap," he said. "Because I'm not a rapper."

He said the reception has been good. The video is posted on his Facebook page, as well as YouTube, where it has about 110 views.

“It’s been incredible," Theodoropoulos said. "I have gotten tons of texts from people I haven’t talked to in months and months and months, musicians and artists who record in our recording studio.

“They all reached out and said 'Hey man, you kept the beat!'”

Theodoropoulos describes himself as "just a regular guy who wants to go to Washington and demand change."

Reaction to the video on Reddit, where it was posted under r/Delaware, was mixed.

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