asking Al Gore to run in 2008!
Super delegates and Gore
Posted March 17th, 2008 by rodbailey
Those of us trying to organize a grassroots effort to save the Democratic Party from itself (see my earlier post) are expanding our efforts. We are now trying to urge the super delegates to seriously consider Gore as a compromise/peace candidate at the Democratic Convention. To that end, I have been trying to find people from the several states to start researching names, addresses, phone numbers and any other pertinent information about super delegates from their states. To date, there are people working on this in NY (me and some others), MD, OH, IL, MA, and OR. There are feelers out to the following states: NC, MI, AZ, KS, AL, and NM. I haven't heard back from people I've contacted in those states yet, but hope to in the near future. At the same time, I have been urging folks in charge of AGO as well as draftgore.com to start a place on their respective web sites where people could work on this. It is easy to find who the super delegates are at this link: (http://s3.amazonaws.com/apache.3cdn.net/03932e1b8eb6b12c62_cdm6bnnf7.pdf). If anyone seeing this is interested in joining our effort, please contact me directly at rbailey22@rochester.rr.com.
The point we'll be making to the super delegates is to, perhaps, sit out the first ballot at the Convention (especially if Hillary and Barack are essentially tied and both somewhat bloodied from all the stuff going on between them up to that point) and then introduce the idea of a Gore/Obama ticket to bring some unity and peace to the party, as well as having a ticket that would be an easy winner in November. And, to be quite honest, from my perspective after the primaries are over, with the attacks from one side to the other and back, I'm afraid that both Hillary and Barack will be so damaged as to not be able to win in November. Another 4 years of a continuation of what Bush has done for the last 8 is not what we need.
So, please join the effort to let the super delegates know how we feel and try to get Gore back into the thick of their thinking.
Be part of the Draft Gore '08 campaign!
How is that to happen?
With all due respect to Al Gore, we have to be realistic here. The delegate and superdelegate count for each of the Democratic nominees, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are approximately at 1700 and 1500 respectively. The magic number for the Democratic Presidential Nomination is 2025.
From my understanding the delegates won from each respective state are pledged delegates meaning that those delegates are pledged according to the primaries and caucuses held to date and cannot be changed.
Now the superdelegates of which there are approximately 800 in number are the ones that can be changed anytime. The point of the matter is that Al Gore as far as I know has no delegates won in any of the states because he chose not to be on the ballot. So the scenario of the Democratic National Convention in Denver not having a clear winner at the time of the convention maybe a possibility, but for either Obama or Hillary that trail to the nomination will be very near the 2025 necessary for the nomination, whereas Al Gore would not have any delegates at the time of the convention at his own choosing to not be on the ballots in all the state's primaries and caucuses.
I know alot of us wanted Al Gore as President, but the realism is the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee will be either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Al Gore is one of the superdelegates and understands the role of the superdelegates and you can bet that Al Gore will have an impact on helping those undecided superdelegates make their all important decision on which of the two remaining Democratic candidates will get those remaining votes. All our prayers should be with the whole process as we move forward to its completion. Once that decision is made in Denver, we as Democrats need to unite around the nominee so that we can take back the White House in November 2008. Thank you.