If Al Gore enters the Presidential Race after winning the Nobel Peace Prize How many Hillary

[saracat]

supporters will defect to his campaign? Do many current Hillary supporters prefer Gore? Comments please.

[napi21]

1. Just how long are you going to try to hang on to this foolish idea?

Gore ISN'T RUNNING!!!! He didn't run a great campaign last time, and he won't run this time! He's happy doing what he's doing. Get over it and move on!

[saracat]

2. I have not been hanging on to any such idea. I am asking a hypothetical.

Many on DU have this hope. I do not. Though I think it would be interesting to see such a race and I would hope for anybody but Clinton! And I think your comment is just nasty.Many don't want to "get over it and move on".That sounds very GOP like to me.

[Tellurian]

3. If anything...Gore will support Hillary..

she neglected to add that as a hypothetical...

probably because she couldn't accept the result.

[saracat]

6. Doesn't matter to me who he endorses. What matters is how I choose to vote

and it will not be for Hillary. My poll is not about who Gore endorses.If you want to know that, start your own poll because I don't care who endorses whom.

[Tellurian]

9. Not even if she is the nominee?

Interesting...

[saracat]

10. Probably not. I was going to but the more I learn about her, and those who support her

the less likely it is.I won't vote "against " her,(except in the Primary) but I will likely , at this point, not vote for her if she is the nominee. It will be the first time ever that I have not voted for the Democrat in the GE. It will be the first time since 1972 that I will not have voted. I cannot support her.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. Fine

I'll register two homeless people to vote, take them out to breakfast the day of the election, then let them vote for Senator Clinton...


Fuck it... I'll rent a bus , take the whole lot of them to vote...That will cancel out some splinterists...

[saracat]

17. Good for you.Maybe I can persuade some to right in a "real " Democrat.

I hope it doesn't come to this .I really do.And I hope I can vote. I sincerely do.I just can't imagine supporting Clinton.

[bigdarryl]

4. Good point i was going to say the same thing some polls have Gore in the race and...

he's not doing to good if you believe the polls so all this draft Gore bullshit is a joke. plus the party isn't to kind on candidates who won the nomination and lost the general in a previous election.

[Enrique]

5. Gore won both the nomination and general election

let's not forget.

[saracat]

7. And that is true.Lest they forget.

[saracat]

8. That is interesting.Do you have some links to that? I thought it was a given that

the nomination was Gore's for the asking.Most polls indicated that and the pundits seemed to agree.But things can change.Got a link?

[MonkeyFunk]

11. Not even close

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htm

"If the 2008 Democratic presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today, and the candidates were , for whom would you vote?"

10/1-3/07 %
Hillary Clinton 42

Barack Obama 20

Al Gore 12

John Edwards 9

Joe Biden 2

Bill Richardson 2

Chris Dodd 1

None (vol.) 3

Unsure 9
***********************************8

The others have been building organizations, campaigning and fundraising for 10 months. The notion that Gore could just announce and become the automatic frontrunner is just nonsensical.

[saracat]

12. Thanks.Fascinating. I concur that it would be difficult to emerge as an immediate forerunner.

[sallyseven]

13. Gore will not run, Gore will not run,

Gore will not run, Gore will not run. GET IT!!!!!!!!!

[saracat]

14. This is a Hypothetical.This is a Hypothetical.Get it?

[Catchawave]

15. Interesting poll, would it be better to ask

Would you leave the candidate you're now supporting to support Gore ? I think a lot more Gore supporters are holding on to their #2 guy/gal til he makes a decision. That may gage the Gore support better?

Just wondering. I don't see Gore running with Hillary in the race, I think the Clintons will eat him alive.

[BenDavid]

18. The guy has no fire in his belly to be

president. One has to have a fire and a damn passion to want to be president. You got to believe that you offer the best prescription to help america. You want to make americans proud once again of their country. gore goes not exhibit this fire and passion and if he did he would have entered the race long ago or in 2004.....It makes no difference as to whom gore grows his support and it will not chnage the polls or the race one bit...

I do thank you
Ben David

[maximusveritas]

19. Current polling shows the voters being split proportionally

So Hillary would still be the frontrunner and in stronger position.

[saltpoint]

20. Great mysteries attend the Gore speculation. If he announces, I believe

there will be several defections immediately, then some more eventually, from not just Sen. Clinton's supporters but from most of the field as well.

Gore enters with a ferocity and a righteous widn at his back, having been famously cheated by a now failed administration.

HClinton has the organization, prestige, and cash to match him but possibly not the grassroots support to defeat him for the nomination. Gore would be competitive in all the first three criteria and would whomp her good in the fourth.

I definitely do not see Al Gore endorsing Hillary Clinton for the White House in this race, should he choose not to run. I do not believe the two of them share similar visions of the party or of the nation.