Green Party Weighs Endorsing Nader

By JR ROSS
The Associated Press




MADISON, Wis. - Delegates to next month's Green Party convention face a unique choice: opt against nominating a candidate for president or formally endorse Ralph Nader, who is running for the White House as an independent after shunning the party that nominated him in 1996 and 2000.

Still, Nader's Green supporters believe an endorsement will be enough to help him get on the ballot in many of the 22 states and Washington, D.C., where the party has ballot access.

Delegates to the convention June 23-28 in Milwaukee are not required to nominate anyone for president. They will cast a series of ballots until either a candidate or the choice "no nominee" receives a majority of the votes.

If "no nominee" wins, delegates can then ask for a vote to endorse a candidate, who most likely would be Nader. The implications of such a move and how it might influence the race remain unclear.

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there won`t be anything left that will be green,will there? but they can vote for who they want-george bush.

The worst environmental president ever vs. the guy who founded Earth Day in Mass.

Tough one.

a lot of individual Greens are voting Dem at the federal level this year.

it may be enough for Bush to win.

He's going to massage the vote tallies no matter what. It just makes his job easier if he can assign more votes to a Green column so as to deflect attention to them from his nefarious dealings.

becasue Nader wasn't on the ballot (or under any circumstance).

to the arid dust and desolation party.

matter.

How can you take a party seriously if nominates someone who doesn't even belong to the party?

I am a delegate from NC and I think endorsing Nader is the absolute worst thing that we can do. I do not think it will happen.