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In reply to the discussion: Why do I hate Greens? Here's why [View all]JHB
(37,179 posts)...about half of which are in California, according to http://www.gp.org/officeholders
All local stuff (town clerk, water district board, etc.). Sometime last summer I looked up if they had any higher-level office holders. It seems that the handful of people they've ever managed to elect to state office later switched to the Democrats, to Independent, or just plain lost the next election.
As for running presidential candidates? The fact that Nader had disappeared between 1996 and 2000 was all one needed to take their measure. Pure grandstanding. Even if one agrees with positions they nominally hold, they can't get anything done.
That's what happens when you want to be the lefty party in parliament in a country that doesn't have a parliamentary system.
They had 20 years following Nader's 1996 run to build an effective liberal-left voting bloc, and have nothing (good) to show for it.