How is the Green Party changing?
Green Party is a fairly recent phenomenon, relatively anyway, so it hasn't changed much. I mean it went from, being in the 1980's, kind of this beginning, nobody-really-knew-much-about-it party, to going into the 1990's, especially with Bill Clinton and him bringing the Democratic Party his third way politics - bringing the Democratic Party more towards the middle, especially economically. That's where the Green Party started. The people who are dissatisfied with that - more liberal, and especially the environmentalists who they didn't think Bill Clinton and Al Gore were doing enough - started to look toward the Green Party as an alternative, a kind of a, "this is who we're going to vote for to voice our displeasure." And then Ralph Nadar took up the mantle of the Green Party and brought a nationally recognized name - somebody who's already been into politics since the 1970's, had already made a name for himself - into it. And with the 2000 Election, that's been kind of like the high point of the Green Party, with Ralph Nadar able to, you know, get 5% of the vote - or close to 5% of the vote in certain places, or sometimes even over 5% of the vote - and really kind of threaten Al Gore's candidacy. Not in terms of he's going to take it over, but threaten in terms of taking enough votes away from him that he had to address Ralph Nadar's presence. And since then, it started to decline - with Ralph Nadar kind of moving away from it, it started to decline again.
