Barack Obama is no longer the most historic candidate in this year’s presidential election. When the Green Party nominated Cynthia McKinney, a former Congresswoman who happens to be both African-American AND a woman, as their presidential candidate, the historicality of Obama’s campaign was thrown into question in the eyes of the dozens of Americans who were aware that the Green Party had nominated a candidate.
McKinney poses a challenge to the Democratic candidate in other ways as well, taking strongly liberal stances across the board that make Obama look much more like a moderate. She is a firm environmentalist and supporter of same-sex couples’ rights, and advocates the legalization of medicinal marijuana. Perhaps what is most interesting about McKinney, however, is what - or rather, who - she is not: Ralph Nader. Nader earned nearly 3% of the national popular vote as the Green Party candidate in the 2000 election, grabbing himself a spot in the history books both as the party’s most successful presidential candidate and as the man considered by some to be the reason for George W. Bush’s victory, having taken away so many votes from Democratic candidate Al Gore.
Finally, Cynthia McKinney, a six-time Democratic Representative from Atlanta, may have found a way to steal some of the precious youth vote back from Obama: she announced as her running mate journalist Rosa Clemente, who is known on the streets as a major hip-hop activist. It’s only a matter of time before Will.i.am remixes his “Yes We Can” video for this true rapper’s candidate. And then Barack Obama would really have something to worry about.
Photo courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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