Subject: Sanders was not interested in a third party run, given the

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Sanders was not interested in a third party run, given the history of third party runs (green, Nader, etc.). He wanted to take on the Democratic Party. Even he admits he never thought it would go anywhere when he started his candidacy. But now that he has won over 40% of the vote in the primaries, and has demonstrated that he does even better among independents, and now that he's demonstrated that ordinary people can fund a campaign at a level competitive with the corporatist candidates' backers, it's a different ball-game. It's irrelevant that he wasn't interested in a Green nomination a year or two ago. What has just happened is a game changing situation. If he can be convinced to run as a Green now, he could help the Greens become a major political force, win or lose, that would go forward as a movement, free of the oligarchy-owned gate-keepers in the Democratic Party.