1. Does anyone know if there’s any chance that the write-ins in Massachusetts will be counted? It would be interesting to know who Green enrollees are writing in.

   I suspect that many of the write-ins are for major-party candidates. If I’m right, that creates an interesting situation for those Greens who have, for the past several years, been adamant on the one hand about Green independence from the Democratic Party and on the other hand about state-enrolled Greens being the grassroots base of the party and source of its strength.

2. Ouch. That is an another ass kicking for McKinney. Even with Nader no longer seeking the party’s nomination, Ralph is still well over 11,000 votes ahead of her in a popular vote thus far. And I can’t see that many more people voting in the state caucuses to come.

   How will the McKinney campaign spin being the nominee with just a minority of the Green vote?

3. Mike: Only a handful of states have Green Party primaries, that’s how (I believe it’s five, plus D.C.). You can bet that the vast majority of delegates who will actually be in the convention hall in July will be for Cynthia McKinney. I would imagine at least one if not all of the other candidates (Swift, Mesplay, Johnson) will have dropped out by then, particularly since none of them are going to get the nomination. I think Jesse Johnson would make a mighty fine VP candidate, however.

4. David,

   But the fact remains the same, the rest of the state Green caucuses will be tiny affairs with fewer than 200 voters a piece – most will be lucky to top 100 voters.

   Those remaining states will decide the nomination and it’s sad, given that McKinney clearly isn’t the choice of the grassroots, just the party insiders that participate in those things.

   Ralph Nader’s flattened her twice, she was beaten overwhelmingly by Uncommitted once and she doesn’t seem to have any campaign visibility outside of the party and on third party centered sites like this and TPW.

   It appears that what we’re likely to get from her is a David Cobb style campaign and David Cobb style vote totals.

5. The Massachusetts primary was held _before_ Nader announced that he was not seeking the Green nomination. I’d say it’s a good result for McKinney, given her name recognition as opposed to Nader’s.

   It’s not the fault of the other state parties that they do not receive a state subsidy for their nomination processes. I hope they are being as inclusive as possible, but they clearly do not have the resources to duplicate a state-managed primary election.

   Of course, there would have been more of an incentive for inclusivity and outreach on the state level if the GPUS had adopted a delegate allocation formula based on voter turnout (a _real_ reflection of the “One Person, One Vote” principle) rather than voter enrollment.

6. why so long to count so few votes?

7. Will: That’s exactly what I was thinking, especially if they use a touch-screen or other electronic system where the vote totals are essentially available instantly.

8. To Mike Gillis:

   Cynthia McKinney will not run a “David Cobb style campaign.” You can be sure that she will be running to win in every jurisdiction where she can obtain ballot access.

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