Green Party names McKinney as presidential pick

[Mugu]

Reuters via yahoo.com

CHICAGO - The U.S. Green Party, which captured far less than 1 percent of the vote in the last presidential election, chose former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney as its 2008 presidential candidate on Saturday.

McKinney, 53, will be joined on the ticket for the November election by vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente, a hip-hop artist and activist.

McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast at the party's nominating convention in Chicago, party spokesman Scott McLarty said.

In 2004, the Green Party drew 119,859 votes, or 0.1 percent of the total, finishing in sixth place behind the two major parties and three other third-party tickets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080712/pl_nm/usa_politics_green_dc_1">Complete article

[texasleo]

1. How many votes did Nader get in Florida in 2000?

[Lasher]

2. 97,421

That was 1.633% of the Florida total.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. She deserves all that and more. She has tried to correct this mess.

:applause:

[pnorman]

4. There's a fuller discussion of this over here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3393006

pnorman

[barbtries]

5. you can listen to the green party's convention live here:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/11/18515409.php

i think i might turn green if it was viable. i'm torn. the democrats are not representing my values and beliefs and not doing enough to change the world in my opinion. yet it is so important to get rid of the republicans that i dare not vote my actual conscience, because i'm in NC and my vote may actually count.

makes me homesick for CA.

i've never been anything but a democrat. but democrat used to mean liberal to me. democrat used to be the opposite of reactionary and warmongering. it's just sad days. i think i'll listen to their convention just for the refreshing change of position they represent. here's their "10 key values":

grassroots democracy
social justice
ecological wisdom
non-violence
decentralization
community-based economics
feminism
diversity
responsibility
future focus

they seem more representative of me than the two major parties. yet i know i cannot vote green in NC because it's too republican already. my vote must work against and not for because my choices are severely limited in this non-representative two-party system we're stuck with.