Senior Democrats mull Al Gore's nomination [rquoter]Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president. The bloody civil war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has left many Democrats convinced that neither can deliver a knockout blow to the other and that both have been so damaged that they risk losing November's election to the Republican nominee, John McCain. Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at a news conference: Senior Democrats mull Al Gore's nomination Former aides to Al Gore now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate Former Gore aides now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate acceptable to both camps at the party's convention in Denver during the last week of August. Two former Gore campaign officials have told The Sunday Telegraph that a scenario first mapped out by members of Mr Gore's inner circle last May now has a sporting chance of coming true. Mr Gore, who was Bill Clinton's vice-president and has since won a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his work on green issues, remains an influential figure eight years after he beat George W Bush in the popular vote but lost the White House after the Florida recount fiasco. The opening has emerged because opinion polls show Mr McCain stretching his lead over both Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, whose campaigns are engaged in a daily cycle of attacks, character assassination and mutual recriminations on religion, race and the economy. advertisement Between a quarter and a third of Obama and Clinton supporters say that they would not now vote for the other in November. The prospect of a new Gore candidacy was raised last week in Time magazine by Joe Klein, the doyen of American political writers, and discussed on the main cable news networks, CNN, Fox and MSNBC. If neither Mr Obama nor Mrs Clinton has the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination, and if both appear unable to beat Mr McCain, under one scenario a group of about 100 party elders - the "super-delegates" - could sit out the first ballot in Denver, preventing either candidate winning outright, and then offer Mr Gore the nomination for the good of the party. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat congressman from Florida, said last week: "If it goes into the convention, don't be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket." This suggests the party would accept a Gore-Clinton or a Gore-Obama pairing. Following a brief flurry of speculation that he might jump into the race last year, Mr Gore claimed he had "fallen out of love" with politics, but he has pointedly refused to rule out another tilt at the White House and said that the only job in public life that interests him is the presidency.[/rquoter]
Interesting...just can't see it happening. It would also not be fair to either Clinton or Obama after all these hard months campaigning, and more importantly, it's a slap in the face to the millions of people who are going out and voting in these primaries. If this actually happens the Democrats are going to look even dumber than they currently do.
Gore/Obama was the ticket I wanted months ago. Now I think this would just end up pissing everybody off and keeping a lot of voters home.
Gore would be a great president, too bad he doesn't want to bother with politics anymore, and who can blame him?
How is this fair to Clinton or Obama? Or more importantly, the voters that have spent months and months supporting them?
He won the popular vote and he would have won florida with a full recount. If it wasn't for the supreme court bush loses.
I really hope you do not believe those lies. They had recount after recount in Florida and Gore didn't win. Sorry.
Here is a source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDB1338F931A25752C1A9679C8B63 If all votes had been recounted he would have won. Anyways Gore won the popular vote. Bush will be remembered like jimmy carter.
QUESTION: Is there a limit on the number of times someone can be VP? Rocket River Gore may make another Go at VP
No way on earth this will happen. Regardless of its merits as an idea, after a campaign that constantly talked about the historic possibilities of the first black or first female president, the Dems are not going to go out and put a white male at the top of the ticket to "save the party". It would be a total disaster and piss off the supporters of BOTH candidates. Let's say Obama has 50% support as a first choice and Clinton has 50% support as a first choice, who's going to be happy with the guy that didn't campaign or put any effort into it, who has no organization of any sort, and has something like 10% support as the first choice?
Reagan had already run for president. He lost. It's hard to believe the Republicans thought he was their savior.
Kind of moot. Anyone interested in getting on all 50 state's ballots had to declare by March 1 I believe.
