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February 20, 2000 Al Gore [C]laimed he has “always, always, always” supported Roe v. Wade. Gore, in 1977, voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that abortion “takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,” and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee.[Citation Needed]
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The award is likely to renew calls from Mr. Gore’s supporters for him to run for president in 2008, joining an already crowded field of Democrats. Mr. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, has said he is not interested in running but has not flatly rejected the notion.
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Because Gore was a journalist, he was never exposed to front-line combat, and some allege that his famous father's influence helped him to obtain this position. However, others argue that any man who enlisted with a Harvard degree had a good chance of being assigned a support specialty rather than an infantry position.
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While consistently supported funding for agencies involved in science and technology, such as the National Science Foundation and for NASA, Gore ... began to give speeches and hold hearings in support of high-performance computing and networking. In 1987, for instance, Gore spoke on the floor in support of research into superconducting supercomputers:
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Ironically, there is substantial support for some of Gore's legal arguments. A 54 percent majority in the Newsweek poll says the U.S. Supreme Court should rule that the Florida Supreme Court acted properly in extending the deadline for hand recounts (38 percent said it did not). But there is an almost even split among adults on whether the highest court in the nation should set its own guidelines for how and when ballots should be recounted (48 percent say it should; 45 percent say it should not).
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In order to get accurate results, USA Today/Gallup really needs to leave Al Gore out of the equation. He’s polling at 18%, which demonstrates the strong support he still has; ... he’s not running, so although it’s interesting it sort of poisons the […]
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