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Al Gore: Race
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In 1985, Gore won the senate seat vacated by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Jr. and served two terms. He launched a bid for the presidency in 1987. On Super Tuesday in 1988 he won the primaries in five southern states, but he wasn't able to maintain the momentum and dropped out of the race.
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Gore took that advice, which may help explain why he came up short in that race. It ... may account for the zeal that the man who describes himself as a "recovering politician" has displayed in his second act. Rather than retire to the sidelines of public life, Gore has stayed in the game by continuing to fight for the environment and other causes close to his heart—whether as a teacher, an investor whose fund puts its money in socially responsible ventures or an entrepreneur who founded a youth-oriented television network.
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Does a potential October Surprise await, one that could upset the carefully laid plans for the New Gore to become the New Nixon? How will he respond when President Bush, irate that the domestic spying story is no longer front page news, tries to shake up the race by ordering a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters?
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The Reuters/Zogby poll of 1,004 likely voters conducted for Reuters Friday through Sunday by pollster John Zogby ... found Gore leading Bush, the governor of Texas, 44-41 percent. With a three percentage point margin of error, the race was technically a statistical dead heat.
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