asking Al Gore to run in 2008!
Waiting . . .
Posted March 18th, 2008 by earthmother
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As of November 2007, AlGore.org suspended its active campaign to get Al Gore to be a candidate iin the 2008 race for the White House. At that time, we informed all of our organizers that we were going into a dormant mode. Publicly, we remain dormant, but we are carefully watching the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. As of this writing, Obama is ahead in delegates, but both candidates continue to split the available delegates in such a way that neither may have enough to be nominated on the first ballot at the convention in August. The next (and last) major state as far as delegates go is Pennsylvania. Depending on what happens there in April, we may decide that it's time to swing into action again.
One option being discussed is contacting the superdelegates. If Clinton and Obama continue to do damage to each others' campaigns, if they continue to split the delegates, if it appears that the Democratic Party will be divided rather than united going into the convention, our purpose would be to suggest to the superdelegates that the party needs someone who can unite the Democrats, and most importantly, someone who can beat John McCain in November. The obvious someone is Al Gore.
We're not the only ones entertaining this notion. There continue to be many articles written about Gore as the unity or compromise candidate. Here are a few of the more recent ones:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/al-de-gore_b_90064.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/news/columnists/only_gore_can_stop_...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/119851
http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/?m=200803
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-kitman/al-gore-for-president_b_9033...
While everyone understands that there are major obstacles standing between Al Gore and the nomination, there are various scenarios that, while long shots, could come to pass. We remain realistic about the situation, but we also feel that if there's any chance at all that we can somehow make our dream a reality, we need to try.
So we watch, and we wait. We'll keep you posted . . .
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How is that to happen?
How is that to happen?
On March 20th, 2008 wanbligi said:
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.