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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...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a possible new threat to her presidential ambitions. Former Vice President Al Gore has again been entertaining offers to run for president. Gore has been discussing a run for a third party nomination with family and close aides. "Al Gore has been energized by the attention he's been receiving as America's leading environmentalist," a political source close to Gore said. "He believes this might present an opportunity to become president or at least try again." Sources close to Gore said Ralph Nader has sought to recruit the former vice president to run as the candidate...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton dazzled hundreds of Baptist churchgoers Sunday morning when he took the pulpit, pledging to stay in the race for president and promising that good things happen ``in God's time.'' The preacher-turned-politician told worshippers that they should vote for the candidate who represents their views, not the one they think has the best chance of winning. He has won just 12 delegates to front-runner John Kerry's 411, according to an Associated Press delegate count.``Just between us, there are six folk running,'' Sharpton said, ``Five will lose. The person you vote for may lose....

Al Sharpton was absolutely correct when he discounted last week's endorsements of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark by local black politicians. As he has proven in two New York races before - and as he demonstrated at a press conference surrounded by minority public officials on the steps of City Hall Tuesday - Sharpton will take all the local black communities, with or without outsiders' endorsements. If Jesus were to return as a white man, walk on water, raise the dead and then run for office, he might take Sharpton down. None of the other pols has a mouse's chance...

For the past few months we have all been hearing and reading about the Democrat candidates for that Party’s nomination for President. What has amazed me is the way Al Sharpton, the master exploiter of riots, mayhem and murders, has been treated as a credible candidate. There he’s been, right up there on the stage the other candidates as they debate. Sharing the platform on occasion has been Carol Mosely Braun, a black former Senator whom voters dismissed for sheer incompetence. The problem for me is that the mainstream media have all developed amnesia, rarely mentioning that this candidate gained...

<p>LAST night's fund-raiser for the Rev. Al Sharpton at Jay-Z's 40/40 club was also a late birthday party for the Democratic presidential hopeful. He turned 49 on Oct. 3. Though Sharpton doesn't seem to be going anywhere in the polls, he was upbeat as he prepared to party with P. Diddy and Russell Simmons. Sharpton was buoyed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in California. "He proved that you don't have to be a career politician to get elected," said the Rev. "We're a lot alike, only I didn't have a stunt man to do all my dirty work."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - Donald Trump said yesterday he has no idea why he was listed as a sponsor of the Rev. Al Sharpton's upcoming presidential fund-raiser. "I don't know how my name got on there," Trump told The Post. "It's a ridiculous situation. I know nothing about his campaign, I know nothing about his party.</p>

As he campaigns for the S.C. Democratic presidential primary, the Rev. Al Sharpton is traveling down roads ignored by other candidates, and that's winning him publicity but also riling some black leaders. In campaign appearances and through his civil rights group, the National Action Network, the Pentecostal preacher has been upstaging the NAACP in debates over how to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in York County and a fatal shooting in Chester County. Sharpton has visited the state more than a dozen times since January -- logging two more days in the state than Sen. John Edwards of North...

A peace mission to Liberia by US presidential candidate Al Sharpton, has been cancelled after the US embassy in Monrovia said it could not guarantee the civil rights leader's safety. The Reverend Sharpton had planned to fly to Liberia on Monday to meet with President Charles Taylor, but his office in New York said he was staying in Accra, Ghana where he has been holding talks with Liberian opposition factions. "The US embassy in Liberia reached out to our campaign manager and said they could not guarantee Reverend Sharpton's safety and they highly recommended that he not travel," his spokeswoman...

This is from the middle of the column. The Unbearable Whiteness of DeanIs the Democratic Party dividing along racial lines? Last week we analyzed a pair of competing poll results that suggested it may be: the MoveOn "primary," which Howard Dean won handily, and a Gallup poll, which showed Joe Lieberman in the lead and Al Sharpton in a fourth-place tie overall and leading the pack among black Democrats. It seems Sharpton noticed the same Gallup poll. On CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, he cited it in expressing his frustration over all the attention Dean is getting after the latter's recent...

Party Affiliation and Primary Voting 2000 State Party Registration Required Days Before Election Voter Must Change or Declare Affiliation Type of Primary Comment AL N O (pd) Voters select one party ballot and sign a poll list that notes the choice; parties have access to that list. AK N B Voters receive a ballot which lists all party candidates and may cast their vote for any candidatefor each office regardless of the candidate's party affiliation. AR N O (pd) Voters select one party ballot at the polls; the choice of ballot is recorded and parties have access to that list....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton is officially a candidate for the Democratic presidencial nomination, and will file campaign financial documents with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, his campaign manager said Tuesday. Questions surfaced last week over the official status of the New York-based activist, after he was the only one of nine people vying for the nomination not to file financial disclosure forms with the FEC. Sharpton had argued that he wasn't obligated to file disclosure forms because he was still "in the late stages" of exploring a possible run for the presidency.