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Al Gore: Hillary Clinton
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Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Al Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. His pioneering efforts were outlined in his best-selling book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that ... strengthens the economy.
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Howard Glicken, a long-time fundraiser for Al Gore, is awaiting sentencing on his negotiated plea bargain for illegal fund raising. He raised $2 million for Clinton-Gore and the DNC in 1996, and owns 2 Jaguars with the vanity plates "Gore1" and "Gore2."
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It’s easy to forget now, but the first time that Al Gore was almost president came in the 1990’s, during the Clinton impeachment saga. In a post at the Balkinization blog, University of Texas law professor Sandy Levinson brings up Gore’s first missed shot at the presidency as a way of suggesting that the anti-impeachment liberals who now want to impeach President Bush “are now seeing certain chickens coming home to roost because of their highly legalistic defense of Bill Clinton in 1998.” Levinson advocates “a Ross Perot notion of the president as simply our employee, to be bounced whenever he (or in the future she) manifests sufficient incompetence to warrant firing.”
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In 1996 Gore was renominated and reelected on Clinton's ticket. During the Clinton impeachment crisis, Gore emerged as one of the President's chief defenders. Gore himself had to weather allegations that his fund raising in the 1996 campaign had violated campaign finance laws. The charges could not be proved, though, and in spite of the resulting drop in his poll ratings, Gore defeated former senator Bill Bradley for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2000. Distancing himself from Clinton, Gore proposed protection for Social Security and Medicare, targeted tax cuts to encourage saving and education, healthcare for all children under five, and improvements in public education. His selection of Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish candidate on a major ticket, was lauded by most Americans, since Lieberman had been a strong critic of Clinton's behavior.
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It's clear Al Gore isn't going to endorse someone before the Iowa caucuses, perhaps gunshy after his Dean endorsement. But that doesn't prevent him from endorsing someone down the line, does it? If Obama or Edwards win Iowa, they'll have momentum coming in to New Hampshire. What if Gore endorsed the winner before New Hampshire? It could be the extra "ooomph" they would need to overtake Sen. Clinton there and right into the big Super Tuesday lineups.
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In 1996, Clinton and Gore were reelected. Gore immediately was regarded as the leading candidate for his party's 2000 presidential nomination; he began actively campaigning in 1999 and won a majority of the Democratic delegates early in 2000. Gore chose Connecticut senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. Despite winning the popular vote, the Democratic ticket lost to Republicans George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Gore's campaign was hurt by the Green party candidate, Ralph Nader, and the extremely narrow loss of Florida's electoral votes. Gore sought manual recounts of computer punch card ballots from heavily Democratic Florida counties, but ultimately lost (Dec.
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