February 27 is Ralph Nader’s birthday.  Today he is 90 years old.  He placed third in the presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2008, the only person who ever placed third, three presidential elections in a row.

Eugene Debs also placed third in three presidential elections, but they weren’t in a row (1904, 1908, and 1920).  Norman Thomas also placed third in three presidential elections but they weren’t in a row either (1928, 1932, and 1940).  As to whether Thomas placed third in 1944, that is ambiguous.  The unpledged electors of the Texas Regulars placed third nationally, but one might discount them since they didn’t have a particular presidential nominee.

South Carolina held a Republican presidential primary on February 24. Seven candidates were on the ballot. Here is a link to the unofficial results.

On February 23, the California Secretary of State released the list of declared write-in candidates for the March 5 primary.

Here is the list for the congressional and legislative races. No one who is a member of any of the ballot-qualified minor parties filed. That means that in November 2024, among all the congressional and legislative races, there will be only one member of a ballot-qualified minor party on the ballot, because there is only one race in which a minor party member is one of two candidates running in the primary. That is an American Independent Party member running for Assembly in the Ninth District, Tami Nobriga. It is true there are two Democratic write-in candidates running in the Assembly rce, 9th district, primary, but it would be very surprising if either one of them can out-poll Tami Nobriga, because she is on the ballot. Ever since the top-two system went into effect in 2011, there are no instances at which a primary write-in candidate qualified for the November election if there were two or more candidates whomse names were printed on the primary ballot.

Any person who qualified as a declared write-in candidate in the 22nd Assembly district could have qualified for the general election, because only one person is on the primary ballot and no one filed as a declared write-in candidate in that district.

For the presidential primary, here is the list of declared write-in candidates. They include three Greens (Davi, Matthew Pruden, and Jorge Zavala); one Libertarian, Chase Oliver; and one AIP candidate, Andrew George Rummel.