Gore tells top aides he'll seek nomination!

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Lifer
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Do ya think he'll loose his home state again?? How come the people at home won't vote for him??
 

Eli

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Personally, I don't like Bush.

I would rather Gore be pres... If Hillary ran, I'd definately vote for her.. just because she's a woman. I think it would be cool.. and good for our country.. to have a female president.
 

LH

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I bet its Bush-Rumsfield in 2004.

As someone else has said, most Dems are waiting till 2008(Clinton, Daschle, etc) to put in a serious run. The Dems at the current time have no strong canidate, unless things change over the next year, Bush will be re-elected.
 
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Jugernot

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Originally posted by: Shantanu
Also, who wants to run against a guy as enormously popular as George W. Bush? It's political suicide.

He's only popular because he was president during the 9-11 event. Any President would have high approval ratings during this time. Hell Pat Buchanan would have high ratings if he were president right now.

The American people would have demanded the same strategy from any president and I seriously doubt Bush's administration added much new to our current war on terrorism.

As always, IMO.

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For those who say that any Democrat would be crazy to run against Bush Jr. , AND seeing that no Dems are officially planning to run in 04; this is EXACTLY how Clinton got into office.
"Edited out a bunch of stuff that would fall on deaf ears"


So, what are the first words gonna be out of the "offficial" Gore in `04??? "What happened to the budget surplus???"
 
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Originally posted by: BigNeko
For those who say that any Democrat would be crazy to run against Bush Jr. , AND seeing that no Dems are officially planning to run in 04; this is EXACTLY how Clinton got into office.
"Edited out a bunch of stuff that would fall on deaf ears"


So, what are the first words gonna be out of the "offficial" Gore in `04??? "What happened to the budget surplus???"

Good point- probably. His lameadminstration will likely make that a key tool.
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jjones

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Originally posted by: BigNeko
For those who say that any Democrat would be crazy to run against Bush Jr. , AND seeing that no Dems are officially planning to run in 04; this is EXACTLY how Clinton got into office.
"Edited out a bunch of stuff that would fall on deaf ears"


So, what are the first words gonna be out of the "offficial" Gore in `04??? "What happened to the budget surplus???"
I have to agree. I remember Clinton being a nobody amongst a group of Dem nobodies at the time. Almost by default he became the Democratic nominee. And then Bush Sr. lost to Clinton by way of the poorest run campaign in modern history. Coming off the highly successful Gulf War, Bush was considered a shoe-in for re-election yet he lost.

 

Linflas

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Originally posted by: jjones
Originally posted by: BigNeko
For those who say that any Democrat would be crazy to run against Bush Jr. , AND seeing that no Dems are officially planning to run in 04; this is EXACTLY how Clinton got into office.
"Edited out a bunch of stuff that would fall on deaf ears"


So, what are the first words gonna be out of the "offficial" Gore in `04??? "What happened to the budget surplus???"
I have to agree. I remember Clinton being a nobody amongst a group of Dem nobodies at the time. Almost by default he became the Democratic nominee. And then Bush Sr. lost to Clinton by way of the poorest run campaign in modern history. Coming off the highly successful Gulf War, Bush was considered a shoe-in for re-election yet he lost.

And don't discount the siphoning off of votes to Ross Perot. Most of them were independents and "Reagan Democrats" that have been crucial to Republican Presidential victories.