Is history calling Gore back into White House politics?

[deminks]

http://www.pulsejournal.com/business/content/shared/news/nation/stories/GORE21_COX_W3448.html

WASHINGTON — Is history calling Al Gore back into the political fray? History says candidates who won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college have all gotten their revenge with wins in subsequent elections. And now, after years of calling himself a "recovering politician," Gore is flirting again with politics.

Or is he?

"I do not know for sure if he's looking or flirting," Donna Brazile, his 2000 campaign manager, said in an interview Monday. "But, I have an opinion - Gore remains a headliner and can raise money and rally the base. (But) it's hard for Gore to rule out running again before looking at the landscape."

But political analysts, in considering the prospect of a Gore comeback, cite the historic precedents of candidates who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote, only to win later: Andrew Jackson, losing in 1824 and winning in 1828, and Grover Cleveland, denied in 1888 but triumphant in 1892.

Gore "may be a man whose time has come in his party," Dick Morris, a political adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years, wrote recently in his column for The Hill newspaper. "Like a completely refurbished 'pre-owned vehicle,' Al Gore seems to be positioning himself to Hillary Clinton's left and greener than John Kerry ... His slogan might well read 're-elect Al Gore.'"

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I like that ... "re-elect Al Gore"

[fooj]

1. Yes. Re-elect Al Gore.

Peace.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. I hope so! nt

[Catch22Dem]

3. Go Al, but dump Donna!!!

Seriously, before you take another step, dump Donna Brazile.

[tom_paine]

5. I agree. President Gore should have the seat he won!

But Donna Brazile and other appeasers like her have got to go, for they only know how to lose, how to toady, how to be afraid.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Historical inaccuracy there.

Not all candidates who won the popular vote but were cheated by the abomination of the Electoral College later came back to win. Samuel Tilden, the Democrat, won the election of 1876 and left politics in disgust after being cheated.

[DFW]

6. Al Gore

certainly has good cause to feel disgusted and cheated, but if he gets over both, he would make
a formidable challenge. This time, I have a feeling that if he appears to be leading in Florida,
Sandra Day O'Connor might not find it so "terrible" this time around.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. I kept hoping he'd run in 2004

And obliterate the lying bastard who cheated his way into the White House in 2000. But perhaps that would have been too soon.

I'd love the chance to vote for him in 2008, and victory by Gore would be extremely sweet revenge. I probably shouldn't see it in those terms, but I can't help it.

[mod mom]

8. We need a president who understands global warming. Pres Gore is that

person!

[The Stranger]

9. Run, Al, run.