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Former United States Ambassador and Senator Carol Mosley Braun is not only mulling a bid to reclaim her Senate seat-she is also considering a presidential run.Mosley Braun plans to make a decision Friday regarding her political future.She has various avenues open to her.The Illinois State Democratic primary is crowded with five other contenders.But if Mosley Braun announces she will start raising money for a federal campaign-or is forming a politica action commitee-she can use the money to explore running for office or to rejoin the scene as a national player.

Gore's Decision on a 2004 RunWithin a month, the former Vice President plans to be in or out.These days, its almost harder to find Gore intimates who will predict that he will run than it is to find ones who say that their hunch is he won't.Keeping in mind the very real possibility that Gore himself has not decided, there is a growing sense among well informed Democrats that the needle ISN'T straight up or down, and that he wont do it.Par for the course, Debra Orin in the New York Post and ABC's The Note are leading parallel lives,...