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Guess what? Karenna's husband is now a physician-turned-biotech venture capitalist for a fund backed by financier George Soros!!!

“I’ll do whatever I can to help people with strong, progressive voices,” she said. “In terms of sheer volume, the right wing has really outshouted everybody right now. … I want to change that.”

If she wanted to run for Congress or New York City Council, she would have access top-notch strategists: Donna Brazile, who managed her father’s campaign, said Gore Schiff is the brightest, most capable young woman Brazile has ever met.

Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), who said that he does not remember not knowing Karenna, agreed that she could be a political force. “She’s strong willed and tough … more like her [paternal] grandmother,” he said. Pauline Gore was the first woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville.

“She not only has a great political sense, but a real fighter’s instinct. Whenever there was a question of whether Gore should take a strong stand, or hit back, Karenna was always pushing her dad to go for it,” said Claire Shipman, who covered Gore during the 2000 campaign.

Then there are her father’s former political advisers, Carter Eskew and Mike Feldman at the Glover Park Group, who can be relied on for advice.

If politics is kept at arm’s length for now it is mainly because New York is a more varied town than Washington.

Her husband, Andrew “Drew” Schiff, is a physician-turned-biotech venture capitalist for a fund backed by financier George Soros. Their relative affluence allows them to live on the city’s Upper East Side, while his job gives her an entrée into the world of high finance.

In New York, Gore Schiff seems to have assembled the ingredients for a political career: a passion for issues, family, wealth, an avenue to broadcast her views in Glamour magazine, a $200,000 advance from Miramax Books for a book on unsung American heroines.

Cindi Leive, editor in chief of the magazine, hosted a party on Gore Schiff’s behalf at the Upper East Side restaurant Jo Jo for an article Gore Schiff wrote in the magazine’s November issue on child-care dilemmas facing working mothers.

In 2001, Gore Schiff wrote a Glamour article criticizing the Bush administration, which led to accusations on conservative websites that she talked down to her audience and proposed government-only solutions to vexing social problems — much like the attacks on her father.

Leive told The Hill that “I think she speaks with great authority about what it is like to be a young mother and a politically concerned young woman today” and that Gore Schiff would definitely write again.

For now, Gore Schiff said, she is focused on persuading her son to eat more than chocolate ice cream and only the pepperoni from pizza.

Until November, she had been working part time as a first-year associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a prominent New York City law firm. “It just wasn’t for me,” she said, referring to the culture of a big law firm where face time counts as much as billable hours.

She is now working for the Association to Benefit Children (ABC), a nonprofit group with a $13 million annual budget.