WaPo:
Ralph Nader, whose 2000 campaign many Democrats believe cost former vice president Al Gore the presidency, has decided not to run for president next year as the candidate of the Green Party but is still contemplating a presidential race as an independent, a Nader associate said yesterday.
This really surprises me. Why would Nader reject the nomination of what is, after all, a national party? He could almost certainly win it, and if he wants to have any impact at all on the election he'll need the Greenroots around the country. He won't have time to put together an organization on his own -- and large chunks of his 2000 activists are probably still angry with him.
Either he's going to blink (in which case I get out the champagne) or this is a manifestation of the oft-rumoured Nader egomaniacism.
And the other big question: what do the Greens do now?