We get a lot of this in Oz. The Greens harping on about how they're claiming so much more of the vote, the truth is they aren't. In Oz voting is compulsory so you have to vote for someone, like it or not. Consequently if you don't like, for example the Labor (sic) party but no way are you going to vote for the Libs, you vote Green. Thus the poor deluded greenies think they are winning. Come the General election things tend to sort themselves out.