Archive for 'Al Gore'

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Unclear On The Concept

From an AP article on Al Gore’s simultaneous Oscar/Presidential campaign:
Gore remains, for many party activists, the Democrat and popular vote-getter done wrong.
“He won the election in 2000 — he just lost the (electoral) count,” former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler said. “If I were he, I wouldn’t rule out a run. It’s an uncertain […]

No Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Kos: Obama Wins, If He Runs

So sayeth the Nutroots® prophet:
Standard caveats aside (it’s early, we don’t have a set field, blah blah blah), it’s hard to see how Barack Obama loses the nomination barring scandal or the mother-of-all gaffes.
I’ve been working up a few scenarios given the primary calendar (which isn’t set in stone, with states like California looking to […]

17 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, John Kerry, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

A Quick 2008 Snapshot

It’s clear to me that my old candidate profiles and odds are no longer operative, given the recent activity in the 2008 race.  We’ve had some declare, some withdraw, and the odds have shifted.  From where I sit, the quick view is this.
Two candidates, one Democrat and one Republican, hold the keys to this election.  Each candidate […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Mike Huckabee, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Republican Candidates, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Rasmussen GOP 2008 Poll: Rudy Leads…

…with 24% of likley GOP voters, but Condi is a surprise #2 with 18%, followed by McCain at 17%. 
In potential general election matchups, Rudy ties Hillary with 46% each, but leads Obama and Al Gore. 
Full results here…

2 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Another One Bites The Dust

It’s the smartest move of his political career…Senator Russ Feingold, no doubt internalizing the push to the center that brought the Democrats back into Congressional power, has taken his hat out of the 2008 ring:
Feingold, 53, conceded that he faced long odds of winning the nomination.
“It would have required the craziest combination of things […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Russ Feingold, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Is It Hillary By Acclamation?

It sure will be if John Edwards is the toughest rival she faces.  Michael Barone looks at the fallout from the Warner withdrawal:
Mark Warner announced this morning that he’s not running for president. As Prince Metternich asked when informed that the Russian ambassador had suddenly dropped dead, “What can have been his motive?” I suppose […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Joe Lieberman, Mark Warner, John Edwards, Al Gore, Russ Feingold, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Election 2008 by Mark

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Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Gore Non-Commital On 2008 Run

I suspect we’ll have a pretty good idea who’s running and who isn’t when the smoke clears in November, and that’s why I’ve been very negligent in covering 2008 news lately, but Al Gore isn’t coming out strong one way or the other:
Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn’t rule out making a […]

No Comments » - Posted in 2006 News, Al Gore, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, August 6th, 2006

More Rumbling On The Lieberman Factor

Mickey Kaus said it first, but Dan Balz grabs the baton and runs with it:
The passion and energy fueling the antiwar challenge to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in Connecticut’s Senate primary signal a power shift inside the Democratic Party that could reshape the politics of national security and dramatically alter the battle for the party’s […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Joe Lieberman, Election 2006, Al Gore, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, July 29th, 2006

The Internet, Explained

Our good friend Eric says this is what the Internet was invented for - and who am I to disagree? Please note, however, that I have not been able to confirm this with Al Gore as of this writing…

2 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

More 2008 Polling Data

Again from Gallup; for the Republicans, it’s Rudy at 29%, McCain at 24%, and everyone else way, way back…for the Democrats, it’s a replay of 2000 with Clinton and Gore - but don’t forget 2004! Edwards and Kerry aren’t far behind…and Mark Warner at 2%? I guess hiring accused stock manipulator Jerome Armstrong and […]

12 Comments » - Posted in John Kerry, Al Gore, Mark Warner, John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Rudy Giuliani, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, June 11th, 2006

George Will: Gore-bal Warming Imminent

On the prospects of a Gore candidacy:
…[H]aving come within 537 Florida votes, or perhaps a 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision, of becoming president, why not try again, particularly with, he says, “Earth in the balance”?
If he does, he will have to tweak his Cassandra persona. For example, when he said on “This Week” that […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Monday, June 5th, 2006

Kaus KOs Kerry, Plus: Gore Gets Real

Mickey Kaus on Kerry and the new Swift Boat battles:
…[A]t this point only artificial conventions of objectivity prevent MSM journalists from openly acknowledging that Kerry has no hope of winning the presidency. He’s a dead man who doesn’t know it, a political zombie refighting a lost campaign by refighting his role in a lost war, […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, John Kerry, Iraq, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Sunday, June 4th, 2006

What Liberal Media? (Special British Edition)

Henry Porter, writing in ultra-left English paper The Guardian, still hasn’t gotten over Florida in 2000:
Listening to Al Gore at Hay-on-Wye last week, I wondered where we would be had the Supreme Court sided with him in 2000 instead of overturning his narrow majority in favour of George W Bush.
For one thing, Gore would not […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Gore Puts Energy Policy In Play

Laurie David can rest a little easier tonight - her sugar momma backing of Al Gore’s current star turn is having its intended effect.  Gore’s movie hasn’t even been released in most places, and the chattering classes are abuzz.  The result? Energy policy is heavily in play.
To be sure, it’s not all Gore - a […]

No Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Domestic Affairs, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Republican Candidates, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

An Inconvenient Review

Uh-oh…you know you’re in trouble when a movie review, for cryin’ out loud, starts like this:
“An Inconvenient Truth,” Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary about the dangers of climate change, is a film that should never have been made. It is, after all, the job of political leaders and policymakers to protect against possible future calamities, to […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Saturday, May 20th, 2006

The Unreality-Based Community

Let me state up front that, though it goes against every instict we have for detecting parodies, this post is not a put-on:
[San Francisco Mayor Gavin] Newsom’s entrance in the 2008 presidential election would create a firestorm of interest, sparking overnight the passion that Democrats are desperately begging for. New political faultlines will be […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Friday, May 12th, 2006

Bush Beats Gore and Kerry For Third Term

Hypothetically speaking…with the hat tip to the great Mickey Kaus and newsalert, we find that George W. Bush’s worst favorable ratings yet STILL, incredibly, outshine those of Gore and Kerry:
The political situation has not helped some of the more prominent members of the Democratic Party. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was Mr. Bush’s opponent […]

3 Comments » - Posted in John Kerry, Al Gore, POTUS, Donkeys, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Real Life Beats Fiction Every Time

You can’t write stuff this good:
For former Vice President Al Gore, a rash of favorable publicity surrounding this month’s opening of his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the growing political resonance of its subject — global warming — are stoking the most serious speculation about a Gore political comeback since his loss in the 2000 […]

14 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

The Astonishing Eleanor

Tell me, now, with a straight face, if you can manage it: is anyone in the pundit class more consistently clueless than Eleanor Clift? Not as mean-spirited as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich, she serves more as an amusing barometer of ‘unconventional’ conventional wisdom that is almost invariably 100% wrong. Her latest horse-laugher […]

10 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

It’s All Over In Italy, Including the Crying

Though it seems the incumbent Silvio Berlusconi will not now, nor never(?) concede defeat, the Italian elections have now been confirmed as a victory in both houses for his rival:
Romano Prodi’s narrow victory in the upper house of parliament in Italy has been confirmed by an appeals court.
The certification of overseas ballots was the final […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Foreign Affairs, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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