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A new poll shows former Vice President Al Gore’s entry into the Democratic presidential race might not have such a large impact on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) after all. In fact, it might help to further solidify her frontrunner status. The InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll, which was conducted nationwide Friday evening after Gore was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, shows Gore taking heavily from undecided voters and the other candidates – not Clinton. Clinton registers 43 percent in the Gore-inclusive poll, which is a similar number to her take in polls...

Are the stars aligning for another Al Gore moment in the presidential campaign? The former-vice-president-turned-climate-change-crusader long has hovered over the campaign despite his professed disinterest in becoming a candidate. Now, with rumors of a possible Nobel Peace Prize swirling, he's once again back in the conversation. The peace prize announcement is due on Friday, so he doesn't have long to wait to learn if he has pulled off a unique grand slam for 2007: an Oscar, an Emmy, a bestseller and a Nobel. It would vault him once again back into the center of speculation about whether he might jump...

If Al Gore were principled, he wouldn't be riding around in a Grumman Gulfstream and heavy SUV. Gore is political, and has now been handed a big trump card. If Gore runs on the Green ticket he can seriously hurt (or kill) Hillary's chances for coronation. If Gore knows this, the Clintons know it as well. Gore already has executive office experience. Gore is an international award winner. Gore is not shrill nor hated. A run at the presidency will be a load of fun for Mr. Nobel Winner. He will be smiling as the attention grows and the concerns...

my comment first: Mrs. Bill Clinton feels the inevitability of her Nomination...and probably, also, the inevitability of her election to the Presidency. What the Democratics need - is a strong challenger to Mrs. Clinton, and neither Osama/Obama or Silky Pony Edwards are manly enough to stand up to that woman with the cankles. AlGore is the last man standing who can get Mrs Clinton crazy with anger by challenging what she senses as her righful place within the American power structure.Conservatives should stand with Jimmy Carter and the other grass-root cheerleaders and demand that AlGore has a DUTY to this...

Al Gore's Fans Launch 2008 Draft Pitch Oct 10 09:59 AM US/Eastern The Associated Press (AP) - WASHINGTON Draftgore.com, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, underwrote a full-page open letter to Al Gore in Wednesday's New York Times, imploring the former vice president to enter the presidential campaign. The ad, which says 136,000 people have signed Draftgore's online petition, was published two days before this year's Nobel Peace Prize is expected to be announced. Gore has been nominated for the prize because of his campaign to bring attention to global warming. Although Gore has said he has...

WASHINGTON - Draftgore.com, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, underwrote a full-page open letter to Al Gore in Wednesday's New York Times, imploring the former vice president to enter the presidential campaign. The ad, which says 136,000 people have signed Draftgore's online petition, was published two days before this year's Nobel Peace Prize is expected to be announced. "America and the Earth need a hero right now -- someone who will transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and to the world," Draftgore's letter said. Monica Friedlander, founder and chair of Draftgore.com, said...

True believers refuse to give up on Gore run October 8, 2007 By Christina Bellantoni - State movements to draft Al Gore for a presidential bid are strengthening, with his fans from Iowa to California pledging not to give up and saying they are undeterred by the former vice president's insistence that he won't run. As speculation mounts about whether he will win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, supporters in California today will start collecting signatures to put his name on the Feb. 5 ballot, timed with a Gore speech in the Bay Area. Reports out of Oslo suggest...

California Draft Gore Poised to Put Gore's Name on BallotWed Sep 26, 3:56 PM ET To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Roy Gayhart, +1-858-581-1024, roy@california4gore.org, or Patrick McGovern, +1-812-219-0180, LA@california4gore.org, or Chris Vallone, +1-415-336-0796, all for California Draft Gore SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Organizers of California Draft Gore, a grassroots campaign to put Al Gore's name on the California presidential primary ballot, announced today that the campaign has volunteers located in or assigned to all of the state's 53 congressional districts. Originally convening on websites like algore.org, meetup.com, savethewhitehouse.com and draftgore.com, California Gore supporters quickly built the infrastructure necessary to...

I am occasionally asked why it is that so many Europeans display reflexive anti-Americanism, and I force myself to choose from a salad of possible answers. One of these is the resentment that I can remember feeling myself when I lived in England in the 1970s: the sheer brute fact that American voters who knew nothing about Europe (and cared less) could pick a president who had more clout than any of our elected prime ministers could exert. America could change our economic climate by means of the Federal Reserve, could use bases in Britain to forward its policies in...

BOSTON, MA - A new statewide grassroots political organization will launch a petition drive September 18 seeking to make Massachusetts the first state to place former Vice President Al Gore on a Democratic presidential primary ballot. The new group, Draft Gore Massachusetts, announced today that nominating petitions would be carried into communities throughout the state by volunteers that include teachers, health care workers, homemakers, political activists and retirees. In making the announcement, Fred Koed of Cohasset, a member of the Massachusetts State Democratic Committee, and the chair of Draft Gore Massachusetts, said: “This is that rarity in American politics—a genuine...

A question was axed of Democrat Party Activists: Just a quick snapshot, entirely unscientific, etc., but these polls do help us keep things in perspective, I think. The likely top nine prospective candidates are listed alphabetically, without comment. Don't worry--I won't argue with your choices or dispute your rationales--this isn't one of THOSE polls. If you choose "other," please specify in your reply. Also, if you vote please consider giving the poll a kick. Also, if you think these polls are a total waste of time, why the hell did you click on it? Also, yes, I've included a couple...

Tue Sep 04 2007 09:45:58 ET For the first time Al Gore talks about the effect the press had on him and on the 2000 presidential election, telling Vanity Fair contributing editor Evgenia Peretz that he doesn’t blame the media for his loss and that he accepts responsibility for not being able to communicate more clearly with the public. “Modern politics seems to require and reward some capacities that I don’t think I have in abundance … such as a tolerance for … spin rather than an honest discussion of substance. Apparently, it comes easily for some people, but not...

In the previous issue, I featured the worldview of a fictional character—counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer of the hit TV series “24.” Though wildly popular with the general public, Jack has been raising hackles in intellectual and political circles because (in the words of the show’s conservative executive producer, Joel Surnow) “He’s a patriot.” Or, as I put it, “he does what he must in order to protect his highest values: his family, his country, their freedom, their security. That such an outlook would be considered controversial, even reprehensible—at least among our intellectual and political leaders—says a great deal about the...

Al Gore tried to rein in his adrenaline as the train churned between the two North American venues of his Live Earth concerts Saturday. Gore, the former vice president and environmental activist, rattled off the latest details of companion concerts on six other continents before catching himself. "I'm just so filled with enthusiasm and energy, I'm not letting you ask questions," Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press. Gore kicked off the U.S. leg of the worldwide concerts earlier Saturday in Washington and was keeping track of the Giants Stadium venue on his laptop as the Amtrak train...

  Al Gore Al Gore's staff is denying a report he has canceled all scheduled appearances for the next six months while he ponders an entry into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Taipei Times reported in a news brief Gore had been invited by a Taiwanese lawmaker to come to the island nation and give an address on global warming. But Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Tien Chiu-chin, according to the paper, told reporters Tuesday she received an e-mail from the Harry Walker Agency, which arranges Gore's speeches, saying Gore had canceled all of his scheduled events for...

You'll hear a lot of speculation about Al Gore running for president. The former vice president -- and Oscar winner -- will be in the news all summer and fall, what with a new book tour and appearances to argue for federal action to combat global warming. The buzz works to his advantage, so he's not going out of his way to stop it. At worst, it draws more attention to his favorite cause -- global warming -- and helps sell more books. At best, it sets the stage for a late dash for the Democratic presidential nomination if the...

The effort to convince Al Gore to run for president is reaching the airwaves in Iowa. The Draft Gore Committee launched its first radio ad on Monday on WHO-AM radio in Des Moines. The 30-second ad, dubbed "You Who," features a chorus of voices urging the former vice president and Oscar winner for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. The political action committee, which claims to have gathered 94,000 signatures on an online petition, is not officially affiliated with Gore. The 2000 Democratic nominee has repeatedly said he has no plans to seek...

NBC Universal will devote a whopping 75 hours of air time to showing Al Gore’s "Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.” And if Gore decides to run for president in 2008, the event would be "one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign,” according to The Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org, a Web site dedicated to combating liberal media bias. In addition to devoting all of NBC-TV’s Saturday, July 7 prime time to the concerts, CNBC will carry seven hours of coverage from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. EDT, Bravo will...

In what will surely be one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign if Al Gore decides to run, NBC Universal announced late last week that its networks will devote an incredible 75 hours of time on Saturday, July 7 to showing Gore's “Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.” In addition to the entirety of NBC's prime time that night hosted by Ann Curry of NBC News, CNBC will carry seven hours of coverage from 7pm to 2am EDT; Bravo will show the concerts around the world for 18 hours...

REPUBLICAN DATA Giuliani 29%, Thompson 15%, McCain 12%, Romney 8%, Gingrich 8%. Others or none of the above, 28%. Giuliani beats Clinton by 6, 48-42; McCain loses by 3, 42-45. Both lose to Obama (42-46 and 40-48, respectively). 61% of GOP wants to move beyond Bush's policies; only 30% wish to continue (immigration, war, etc?) Sample size was small: only 437 probable Republican primary voters. Article falsely claims, "When the survey reduced the field to three candidates, Giuliani's lead was more decisive: He drew 48% to McCain's 25% and Romney's 20%." In fact, this is only an artifice of having...