{news} RE: Did the CT Green Party lose it's Presidential ballot line?

[David Bedell]

I believe Chris is right--this was not surprising.  Here are the full 
results that Chris refers to:


http://network.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2004/general/by_state/pres_sen_gov/CT.html?SITE=CTHARELN&SECTION=POLITICS
Connecticut
President - 759 of 759 Precincts Reporting
Name			Party		Votes			Pct
Bush, George (i)	Rep		686,923		43.99
Kerry, John		Dem		847,666		54.29
Nader, Ralph		PEC		12,708		.81
Badnarik, Michael	Lib		3,252		.21
Cobb, David		Grn		9,449		.61
Peroutka, Michael	CC		1,505		.10

I suppose Cobb supporters and Nader supporters can justifiably accuse each 
other of "spoiling" the ballot access, and I did worry about this myself 
when Nader was petitioning.  (Question:  why didn't Nader petition for a 
Reform Party ballot line?  Would it have been a good thing or a bad thing if 
the Reform Party had regained ballot access in CT?)

All in all, however, I think it was worth losing ballot access just to have 
2 progressive candidates running in the state.  Cobb, Nader, and VP 
candidates LaMarche and Camejo all toured CT during the campaign, inspiring 
voters.  Nader gave a great speech last night on CSPAN.

David Bedell

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----- Original Message -----
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:37:38 -0500
From: "Christopher Reilly" <cpr101 at hotmail.com>
Subject: {news} Did the CT Green Party lose it's Presidential ballot
	line?
To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org

According to the Hartford Courant's web site, Cobb got .61% of the vote.
Since that was less than 1% of the vote, I believe that means that the CT
Green Party has lost it's presidential ballot line.  If I'm correct on this
(and I hope I'm not) then in 2008 the CT/GP would need to collect 7,500
valid signatures in order to run someone for president.

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