Who will win the primary if Gore runs?

[Labors of Hercules]

RE: Poll question: For this poll, forget who you want to win. Predict who you THINK will win the primary...

[Labors of Hercules]

1. another question: Who will win the African American vote if Gore runs?

[napi21]

2. First, let me say I don't think Gore is going to run. Why would he?

He has a nice life, does what's important to him, and is enjoying life. WHY in the world would he want to get back into the backstabbing, hateful mess of US Politics and have to clean up the disaster that Shrub made over the last 6 1/2 years? I sure wouldn't!

Having said that,I think thecurrent top 3 candidates are going to end up destroying each other, and Richardson will come out the winner. Listen to him some time. He really does have the best resume, and I think he could beat ANY Pub candidate too!

[Labors of Hercules]

3. Agree with you that the top 3 will wipe each other out...

I'd be very happy with a Richardson/Obama ticket if postulations about Gore running turn out to be wrong.

[Divernan]

4. Gore's life is about public service, - not personal power,that's why.

With his decades of experience in the House, the Senate and as VP, he knows the federal govt. inside and out. He understands exactly what Bush et al have done to gut our democracy & each of the three branches of govt., and what needs to be done to reclaim and repair them. Gore also knows that he is by far the best qualified of any of the candidates to do so. I think he'll choose to run out of his love of country.

[Digit]

5. I agree

He will hear the call (or maybe already has) and will step forward when the time is right.

[napi21]

6. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

I firmly believe that most of thepeoplein elected office would leave tomorrow if the rightoffer came along. I'm not saying Gore is looking for an offer, but that a life offund raising 24/7, kissing a**es, and fighting the opposition isn't anyone's idea of a good job to have!

Time will tell.

[Samantha]

11. When push comes to shove, Al Gore lives here too

and more importantly, so do his children and grandchildren. He is not so self-absorbed that he cares only about money. He cares about the condition of this country, as well as the planet, and what the future might hold for the inhabitants.

[Rydz777]

14. Well said

And my conviction is that if Gore were (re)elected President, at the moment he took the oath all the miasma of the previous eight years would fall away, and not just the United States but the whole world would give a huge sigh of relief. His presence in the Presidency would instantly restore the moral standing of the United States in the world.

[Labors of Hercules]

19. damn... you made me smile!

I am so happy there are others who feel that way! :toast:

[CTyankee]

7. I don't see critical mass yet for him to consider running but I guess

it could happen. Especially if he thinks he MUST run to save the planet.

But if he doesn't, I think Richardson would have a shot. No, he's not charismatic like Bill Clinton but I remember that after Nixon we were so exhausted from all the Republican corruption we elected Jimmy Carter, not known for his charisma either. We may be just so worn out from Bushco that Richardson looks like a godsend of goodness and common sense. I just hope he has a better presidency than Carter did.

[Labors of Hercules]

8. interesting analogy...

question though: How will we know if/when critical mass has been achieved?

[CTyankee]

12. I don't know. It would be something that he hadto discern himself.

It's difficult. I really don't know how these things are done. Prolly lots of money propels him forward and then everyone gets to know who he is...


I don't really know...I wish I did...

[MasonJar]

9. He has my vote...always has had.

[Labors of Hercules]

10. love that screen name!

Brings back memories of Mom and Dad in the kitchen...:hi:

[Labors of Hercules]

13. ok folks, we need a good sampling here...

Especially those who think another candidate will secure the primary... SPEAK UP and BE HEARD!!!

[AshevilleGuy]

15. Pres Gore won't run unless he is certain he can win

the nomination. That implies that the nomination would not already be "fixed" by the Dem power players.
I fear that it already is; there is just seems to be this inevitability that Hilary will be the nominee; I have seen this many times before.

[Labors of Hercules]

17. The Dem elite are going to "fix" the person most likely to win...

among those they know are going to run.
Actually, I am wondering if the current frontrunners' deep diving for dollars is further proof that a large number of the power players already have their eggs in the basket of a future Nobel-Prize-winner hanging out in the wings of the theatre...:evilgrin:

[AshevilleGuy]

25. I wish that *winning* was their only criterion

but it isn't. It's all 'inside baseball' at that level. They look at: whose turn it is; who has the most chits from favors and deals to turn in; and other inside stuff we can only wonder at.

Also it's a power trip - there are some HUGE egos in that group.

[Apollo11]

16. Gore Obama 2008

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Read Al's blog: http://blog.algore.com/2007/02/our_next_step.html

Help Al Gore lobby Congress: www.algore.com/cards.html

Get ready for Live Earth on 7/7/07: www.liveearth.org

Sign the petitions at www.algore.org and www.draftgore.com

:kick:

[Labors of Hercules]

18. SKABLAM!

and gimme a Hell yeah! :bounce:

[Pryderi]

20. What would you think of a Gore-Biden ticket?

[Labors of Hercules]

22. Biden certainly has Balls enough, and I think he'd be a better VP than President...

:shrug:

[PhilipShore]

21. President Albert A. Gore, Jr.

[Labors of Hercules]

23. GORE TOPS 80 VOTES!!! HOLY SHIT!!

Do we love this guy or are y'all just humoring me????

[venable]

24. I like Al Gore, but

I think many here forget what a dismal candidate he was in 04.

His new found backbone is wonderful, but how do we know the guy that said Elian should not be allowed to go back to Florida, who chose Lieberman, who kept saying 'lock box' like a church lady...I pray this guy is long gone.

[Apollo11]

27. dismal = great

04 = 2000

Florida = Cuba

church lady??? :eyes:

[venable]

29. whoops, yeah, I missed the countries and dates

thanks. I'm getting a touch of dumb, I think. (I'm old enough to have worked on Al Sr.'s last campaign)

but I do think that he was dismal as an orator - and I think this is a widely held belief. don't get me wrong, I think he is a great, great man (with the exception of the Elian move, and the VP choice, and the sappy, amateurish role of Corinna in the campaign, and the kiss on stage - yikes), but I also think that the moment he got in front of an audience, he just turned into a stiff, sermonizing, brow-furrowed priss.

As a person, a thinker, a public servant - I think there are few better. He's the real deal in every way except campaigner. For better or worse, people vote more on the basis of campaign style more than on the basis of intelligence and public service.

I think Gore can beat Rudy, but he will look stiff next to him, and this scare me a bit.

Rudy is, by the way, the exact opposite of a public servant. He is a lying, self-serving piece of ish.

[snowbear]

26. Is this a new poll or does it just keep getting bumped up?

:wtf:

[Ninja Jordan]

28. Gore won't run.

[Apollo11]

30. Nobody knows what Gore might do

I don't think Al Gore himself yet knows what he will do in 2008.

It depends on the public response to his next book The Assault on Reason

It depends on how people respond to the current crop of candidates.

It depends how the polls are looking in September/October.

Gore has plenty of time to (re)consider his position and "change his mind".


Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Read Al's blog: http://blog.algore.com

Help Al Gore lobby Congress: www.algore.com/cards.html

Get ready for Live Earth on 7/7/07: www.liveearth.org

Sign the petitions at www.algore.org and www.draftgore.com

:kick: