Mr. Dinkins is a prominent Green supporter and he is not popular on Staten Island.
Speaking to Jack, a 22-year-old Green supporter, there is a sense that an increased media presence might have harmed rather than helped the party: "In Bennett's appearances she came across as an incompetent leader and made the party appear naive or unprepared, " he said.
Another Green supporter, Rabbi Marc Schneier, the president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, said, "Mark Green is a man who sees each and every person as a human being who has needs and hopes and hungers and feelings and fears just as we do".
— Jenny Jones (@GreenJennyJones) May 24 , 2012Green supporter Tom Chivers at the Telegraph vowed to stop voting Green and several people resigned from the party.
Across Europe, Green supporters share a similar profile: educated, urban, cosmopolitan and young.
The Iowa caucuses, which I covered long ago, are a pretty quirky fallible event: a bit like getting Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democratic and Green supporters in Derbyshire to gather in Buxton opera house and pick their choice for PM.
One thing that gives me hope is I'll Vote Green If You Do, a service to help tactical voters know whether there are enough Green supporters in their area to give the Greens a fighting chance.
The paradox is that the more votes and members a Green party attracts, the more it sucks green supporters from the other parties and weakens the green influence within them.
Ed Miliband is heading for the biggest policy row of his leadership after a powerful alliance of Labour activists, unions and green supporters rallied behind plans to force the party to adopt renationalisation of the railways as official policy.
Still, eager not to be viewed once again as spoilers, many Green supporters here were pushing for a strategy in which their presidential candidate would actively campaign only in those states where a Republican or Democratic victory is all but assured.
