Minor parties in California

Looking at the election results today I noticed that in most races, if the Green party and the Peace & Freedom party combined forces, they would have gotten a respectable percentage of the vote and more than the Libertarians or the American Independents. It doesn't look like they are that far apart on the issues, but maybe I'm wrong.

It's all pretty irrelevant anyway given the right-wing trend in the rest of the U.S.