CALIFORNIA WITH 30-40% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING

Looking at the Green Party primary in California, I see that Peter Camejo got around 73 percent of the vote, and no other candidate topped 15 percent.

Golly, why do the Greens all bandwagon to the frontrunner? Just because he has name recognition? Or because the party rank&file think he's the one with the best chance of beating Nader? Is this real democracy, guys? (-:

All kidding aside, let's look at the numbers, using the Secretary of State's site with its purty lil' color-coded state maps.

Kerry won every county, and only in Mendocino did he even finish under 55%, and in that county -- with the finest pipeweed in Northfarthing, so to speak -- it was Dennis Kucinich who made the big dent, at about 15%, his best county performance.

Edwards is in a distant second, under 20%, and Dean and Kucinich are battling it out for 3rd place, each at just under 5%.

At this hour, the education bond initiative, Prop 55, is passing by .4 percent, but full results might not be in for a while, so we'll have to wait and see.

Prop 56, which would lower the bar for budget passage to 55%, is getting steamrolled.

And Props 57 and 58, the Ahhnuld budgetary 2-pack, seem headed for easy victory.