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SARAH BAXTER, TIMES, UK - At the flick of an energy-saving switch, Al
Gore will be able to mount a formidable presidential campaign this
autumn should he decide to run, according to former close aides. "He
would have a very substantial organisation very quickly," said Elaine
Kamarck, a former senior policy adviser. . . Kamarck believes Gore will
have to make up his mind to stand by October in order to contest the
primaries. "I would love him to run again, but when I tell him that, he
just laughs," she said. "He is keeping his own counsel.". . . Donna
Brazile, another former aide, has predicted that if Gore wins the battle
of the bulge, he is running. . . Former advisers such as Brazile have
kept their distance from rival campaigns so they can spring to Gore's
side if need be. However, she is known to admire Barack Obama for his
inspirational leadership. Many Gore supporters believe the former
vice-president and the Illinois senator would be a 2008 dream ticket,
uniting Gore's experience with Obama's charisma.
Gore will have no difficulty in raising campaign cash from Hollywood,
which awarded him an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth, his film on global
warming, and also from Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of
Apple Computer, said: "If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he
would be elected. But I think there is a question in his mind."
Gore claims to have fallen "out of love" with politics after his
bruising experience in 2000, when he won more votes than Bush but lost
the presidency. "He knows that once he gets in the race, all the
positive coverage he has been receiving will turn negative," Kamarck
said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1845287.ece
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SARAH BAXTER, TIMES, UK - At the flick of an energy-saving switch, Al
Gore will be able to mount a formidable presidential campaign this
autumn should he decide to run, according to former close aides. "He
would have a very substantial organisation very quickly," said Elaine
Kamarck, a former senior policy adviser. . . Kamarck believes Gore will
have to make up his mind to stand by October in order to contest the
primaries. "I would love him to run again, but when I tell him that, he
just laughs," she said. "He is keeping his own counsel.". . . Donna
Brazile, another former aide, has predicted that if Gore wins the battle
of the bulge, he is running. . . Former advisers such as Brazile have
kept their distance from rival campaigns so they can spring to Gore's
side if need be. However, she is known to admire Barack Obama for his
inspirational leadership. Many Gore supporters believe the former
vice-president and the Illinois senator would be a 2008 dream ticket,
uniting Gore's experience with Obama's charisma.
Gore will have no difficulty in raising campaign cash from Hollywood,
which awarded him an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth, his film on global
warming, and also from Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of
Apple Computer, said: "If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he
would be elected. But I think there is a question in his mind."
Gore claims to have fallen "out of love" with politics after his
bruising experience in 2000, when he won more votes than Bush but lost
the presidency. "He knows that once he gets in the race, all the
positive coverage he has been receiving will turn negative," Kamarck
said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1845287.ece
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