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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: DixieBelle on March 30, 2008, 01:46:12 PM
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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 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.
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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/30/wuspols130.xml
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When Al Gore is the answer, you know you're in deep doo-doo.
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When Al Gore is the answer, you know you're in deep doo-doo.
When Al Gore is the answer, it's a stupid question. :p
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Jesus, that's stupid. If they're concerned about how the Dem voters will feel screwed if the 'wrong' one of the top two vote-getters don't get a clean win, WTF do they think is gonna happen if somebody who wasn't even RUNNING gets the nod form the smoke-filled room?
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Way to tell black America, "Sure your guy got the most votes, but we decided to give the nomination to this white guy over here."
Yeah, right. thats gonna sell. They can even rub salt in the wound by letting the guy with the most votes be Veep.
--> Anyone thinking of taking the week of the convention off?
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I read some buzzing about this . . . . but then what? african americans and women stay at home on election day?
this is a lose-lose-lose scenario for the dems. :rotf:
I hope howard dean is the DNC chairman for the next 20 years. :-)
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"...the good of the party."
Huh?
I'd love to see what they think is bad for their party.
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"...the good of the party."
Huh?
I'd love to see what they think is bad for their party.
yeah, the ongoing battle is bad, but anointing gore with the nomination when he hasn't won a single caucus or primary would be suicidal, especially in view of how closely run the nomination contest is running.
it appears to me that the closeness of the contest is a great reason to avoid an "alternative candidate", rather than a reason in favor of one.
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If they do that the DNC Convention would end up looking like New Orleans after Katrina.
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If they do that the DNC Convention would end up looking like New Orleans after Katrina.
I don't know. I saw ALOT of black people walking around New Orleans after Katrina.
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If they do that the DNC Convention would end up looking like New Orleans after Katrina.
Someone here suggested provided broken bottles to the delegates. For this, we will need to issue straight razors!