[Marxism] Cindy Sheehan bash/results

[Aaron Aarons]

At 11:56 -0500 2008/11/05, Mark Lause wrote:
<< The engineered division between the Nader-Gonzales ticket and the Greens probably did the most damage in places like California where the Greens were relatively well organized but largely pro-Nader to start with. My understanding was that they were on the Peace and Freedom ballot line there as well, where people used to seeing Gonzales as a Green might not have been looking.  >>

There are no ballot LINES in California. The candidates for each office are listed together in random order, with their party affiliation next to their name(s). (I presume that the order of listing varies from one electoral subdivision to another, but I'm not certain of this.) Where I live, Cynthia McKinney was listed first among the presidential candidates!

So, the fact that Nader and Gonzalez were listed as Peace and Freedom candidates rather than as Greens might have affected how many people chose them versus McKinney among people who like or hate either of those parties, I doubt it had much effect otherwise.

 - Aaron