Going for governor.(progressive Democrats and 3rd parties in 1998 gubernatorial races)

Most are leftwing Democrats in the Midwest or New England. They have come out fighting to recapture their party's liberal tradition after years of Clintonization and drift. But some are third party candidates, who want to raise issues that both parties suppress.

None is more intriguing than former U.S. Representative Dan Hamburg, who represented Northern California as a Democrat in the early 1990s. He chose not to run for his old House seat in 1996 because he believed that the fundraising process was thoroughly corrupting. That same year, he switched to the Green Party…