Posted on 04/03/2007 10:27:28 PM PDT by Red Steel
They've found their candidate.
They've got volunteers.
They've put up a website. Several of them, in fact.
They are raising money for ads.
Signatures are pouring in. Across the country, meetup groups are said to be, well, meeting up.
They are the faithful trying to lure Al Gore into the presidential race, the people behind sites like DraftGore.com and Mass4Gore.com.
Things are going well, they aver -- at least as far as they can tell.
How big is the effort? Hard to say.
"We have 12,000 or so on our signup list," says Monica Friedlander, an Oakland, Calif., communications manager who works regularly on the effort.
Interest surges each time Gore makes it into the headlines in a big way.
He's done that twice recently, first in February, when "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary about Gore's long efforts to spur the country to action against global warming , took home an Oscar. Last month, he made national news when he urged Congress to address the issue.
"The traffic picked up tremendously in the weeks before and after the Oscars, and it spiked in a very similar way after his Congressional testimony," says Friedlander.
Certainly the petition the group has posted is also attracting more and more signatories. Its message is pithily summed up in the first few lines: "Dear Vice President Gore: Americans from every corner of our nation are calling on you. Please listen to our plea and run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 2008."
"We were at 25,000 sometime in January," Friedlander says. "Now we are at 64,000. We hope in another couple of months to hit 100,000 and hopefully take it to a tipping point where it starts growing fast by itself."
In pursuit of that tipping point, the group
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LOL Go ahead and run, Al. It would be a hoot.
It would be a hoot to see Hillary, Gore and Obama running against each other.
Can’t wait for the debates!!!!
LOL, you’ll need to provide a credible link to back up your assertion. Or else just admit that’s simply your opinion and we’ll forget the whole thing.
I don’t think that would happen . The Klinton’s and Algore share an intense mutual dislike of each other .
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