Sunday, March 4, 2007

Al Gore is on Fire!

Al Gore is hot, hot, hot. The new “Ozone Man” has been making headline news all over the world in some of the most popular magazines and newspapers. He is one of Time Magazine’s top 100 people that have helped shape our world. Gore was named Policy Leader of the Year by Scientific American in 2006. He is the leading spokesman on the issue of Global Warming and has produced the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” which has won two Oscars. The movie became the most successful per-screen documentary film opening in history and the book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list last summer. In addition, Gore has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on fighting Global Warming worldwide. He even won the majority vote in the 2000 Presidential elections. So what hasn’t Al Gore done you ask? Al Gore has never been President of the United States.

Gore, 58, insists that he has no intention for running in the Presidential elections of 2008 but he finds himself in his most opportune time to run again. There is a large Democratic grassroots movement to elect Al Gore for President in the next election. The movement is called Draft Gore and has been picking up major steam over the last year. American citizens are signing onto a draft at the website called draftgore.com and they currently have over 52,000 signatures. The movement believes that Gore is the true voice of the Democrats and the only statesman that can effectively return the White House to the American people. They are truly a grassroots movement and are not backed by any powerful group, instead they insist that the movement is built on the “enthusiasm and passion” of the American people. The group believes that the majority vote winner from the 2000 election is still the best candidate for 2008. While Al Gore has not declared to throw his hat in the ring as of yet, the group prides themselves on the fact that they are doing everything in their power to promote his candidacy. It is starting to become a national movement with chapters opening up in every region of the United States.

It is not only a grassroots movement either; many political analysts are stating that they believe that Gore would be the best candidate for the 2008 election. Journalists and commentators Pat Buchanan, Tony Blankley and Eleanor Clift all have stated that they believe Gore will run in 2008. Additionally, ABC’s George Will predicted that Gore will run in the next election. Former President Jimmy Carter has also come out and is publicly supporting him saying that “If Al should decide to run, I would support him.” There is more to it than just these top political analysts’ predictions; recent polls have shown that Gore is ahead of some of the candidates that have already announced their campaign. In a CNN.com poll Gore was ahead of John McCain by 47% to 46%. In a DailyKos poll he leads all other potential candidates by 68% and he also leads heavily in an AlterNet poll. On February 27, 2007 a poll conducted for Time magazine showed that Al Gore has gone up 10 points in a public opinion poll while Hillary Clinton has gone down 4 points. Even the Economist Magazine is supporting Gore by saying, “Mr. Gore is the ideal candidate for the Democratic stalwarts who turn out to vote in the primaries. He came out strongly against invading Iraq. He has spent the past six years warning the world about global warming. And he was robbed of victory in 2000.”

For more information visit, draftgore.com

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