Max Sinister
Banned
Considered that Nader saved thousands of lives by campaigning for safety belts... how many politicians can make that claim about themselves?
No. Pretty much the whole reason the Green Party ever gained any traction at all is because they moved away from just an environmental stance. The problem with running as a single issue party on a scale wider than a local or maybe special district election is any other party can come in with a candidate that agrees with you but also agrees with voters on other issues and take your voters. Look at the 2006 Maine 118th house district race. John Eder had served as the only Green member of a state legislature since 2002, but was unseated by Democrat Jon Hinck, who was an environmental activist and Greenpeace director. It's easy for other parties to co-opt your platform when you're only running on a single issue, and if that happens, then voters start to ask themselves why they should bother voting for you when your platform is no different from this other party but the other party offers more they agree with.Would such a Green Party have more influence than the OTL one?