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The Green Party nominated Texas attorney David Cobb as its candidate for president Saturday, dealing a blow to independent Ralph Nader's campaign. Nader, the party's candidate in 1996 and 2000, had hoped for the party's endorsement and access to the ballot Greens have in 22 states and Washington, D.C. Instead, he will have to find another way to get on the ballot in those states, including Wisconsin and California. CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch says the development is sure to make Democrats smile, since they're convinced Nader would take more votes from presumptive nominee John Kerry than from...

Greens Pick a Candidate Not Named Nader By RICK LYMAN Published: June 27, 2004 MILWAUKEE, June 26 - The Green Party of the United States rebuffed efforts by Ralph Nader to win its endorsement for president by voting Saturday to make David Cobb, a longtime party activist, its 2004 presidential candidate. Mr. Cobb, 41, immediately reached out to Mr. Nader, who drew 3 percent of the national vote when he was the party's nominee in 2000, as well as to Mr. Nader's Green supporters, asking them to put what had been a raucous convention battle behind them. "Ralph Nader has...

They're back. Sporting anticorporate buttons, peace bandannas and tie-dyed shirts, the members of the Green Party of the United States - whose support of a Ralph Nader candidacy four years ago many believe cost Democrats the White House in 2000 - are in the midst of another national convention. This time, they are openly and passionately split about whether to endorse Mr. Nader and campaign enthusiastically against both President Bush and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, or nominate another candidate who will not directly attack the Democratic nominee in crucial swing states. "It is an honest difference of opinion about...

MILWAUKEE - For Green Party delegate Tony Affigne, the question of nominating the relatively unknown David Cobb for president or endorsing the high-profile Ralph Nader comes down to one thing. Which one is better suited to grow the Green Party and ensure its views are part of this fall's presidential campaign? Green Party delegates began arriving Wednesday in Milwaukee for their national convention, many of them asking themselves the same question. Cobb has won a plurality of delegates in the Green Party's primaries and caucuses, but Nader has been the party's candidate in the last two elections. He also offers...

Michelle Shocked instead of Elton John. Election 2004 Special Section: Election 2004: Presidential race Organic unbleached cotton instead of leather patches. And David Cobb instead of Willie G. Davidson. Last summer, it was Harley-Davidson's 100th. This summer, the spotlight of national attention turns on Milwaukee for the Green Party of the United States' nominating convention, beginning today and running until Monday, with events at the Hyatt Regency and the Midwest Airlines Center. The convention will be an amalgam of workshops and parties, lofty oratory and partisan polemics, and all the trappings of a third-party movement that sees itself as ascendant...