In the ultra-super-tight Virginia Senate race, where Jim Webb and George Allen are less than a point apart, the Green candidate, Gail Parker, is pulling down 1.11 percent of the vote. If the current spread holds, she could throw the election to Allen, and potentially allow Republicans to keep the Senate. Parker is running as a member of the Independent Greens of Virginia, a party that branched off of the national Green Party because the bosses there “don’t really believe in running candidates,” IGVA campaign coordinator Joseph Oddo said. Is Oddo worried his party will pull a Nader? “No, we don’t see it that way,” he says. “We see people who are sending a message that they are tired of politics as usual.”
Oddo says his party hasn’t received any Republican cash–though it is surely getting plenty of Republican prayers tonight.