71% dont want Gore to run

[GSC Admin]

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/25/national1211EDT0603.DTL

Among the potential Democratic primary voters, the poll found that 62 percent do not want New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to enter the race and 71 percent are opposed to Al Gore entering the race. The former first lady and one-time vice president have said they have no plans to run.

The telephone poll of 469 registered Democrats and independents interested in voting in the Democratic primary was conducted Monday and Tuesday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. The sampling based on responses from the 260 Democrats questioned had a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.

I am getting so tired of these attempts to wreck and trash Gore and Clinton. How bout they take their 469 calls and shove them! Gore has polled the best overall by far and he has won before!

God!

[Gorezilla]

These polls are getting really ridiculous. How can they expect 469 people to represent......ah whatever.
Dennis

[GoreSupporterNJ]

Again, let's not get bogged down in these polls. It only defeats our purpose. Although, I do believe we should be alert as to who puts them out. No doubt the mudslingers are busy behind the scenes slready pulling all the strings they can to give a negative image to the ignorant ones out there who can't take a leak without looking at a poll first.
Jan

[EnemyCombatant]

This is candidate fatigue.

I think this could be they are thinking that Gore or Clinton entering the race will be just too much.

It's getting a bit sickening and they are all probably confused. What's the record for the num of candidates?

If Gore enters, I think he will clear some people out so it won't be 11 candidates.

Also, if he comes in strong and establishes himself as the alpha dog early on, people will gravitate towards him. They will be able to see the 'difference' between the candidates.

Can't wait for that day.

[BillC]

OR BETTER YET ...

Think about it this way: why would a poll like this come out ? Anybody hedging his/her bets should wager that it's because attention to the draft Hillary and draft Gore ideas are spreading, perhaps even picking up enough significant (i.e., noticeable) momentum to provoke the negative counter-punches that (as mentioned in a reply under a different thread) are precisely what the draft Gore effort should expect to happen. Look at it as a way of discouraging the whole draft Gore effort.

As volunteers worked the draft Gore initiative outside the DNC post-debate fundraising event in New York last night, it was found that the sentiment most encountered, more than anything else, is profound disappointment in the current group of Dem. candidates. Many, many people said what amounts to, "If it continues to go like this, the Democratic Party is gonna lose big time next year." It's like, the idea being expressed was a kind of - What is this ? Do the Democrats want to self-destruct, or what ? And don't think for a minute that many are not aware of this. They are, in lots of places.

So it's clear that a Gore entry into this thing, or a draft Gore option (like a Hillary entry, or a draft Hillary option - which is the buzz so many wishful thinkers fantasize about) really is a viable alternative, one that becomes ever more interesting to people, ever more possible, as the ho-hum of the current parade dribbles on. And again, everything possible will be done to make a train wreck of the growing draft Gore effort. The naysayers in the media and the political spectrum (worst of all, within the Democratic Party), you can rest assured, will simply not let up. The best thing that Mr. Gore could do right now would be to stand up to all this, soon, and walk right over it with everybody behind him, and right into the nomination, right into Dem. Party unity. He has a following that would overwhelm every other candidate out there. And he can roll back the obsessive, relentless negative tide in the media, and among politicos, which seems to have committed itself to working against him. (It is precisely because of so much of this kind of thing, that he should enter the race, and run a campaign a-la his 8/7 NYU and 9/19 S.F. speeches.)

In many ways, if you think about it, it's not even so much about 2000 at this point. It's about winning next year. If the Dem.'s want to win, they've got to do something soon. Al Gore is probably the only one who has the power to mobilize (electrify would probably the better word in 2004's case !) voters from every sector, every demographic, out there.

(Think about it. If his 8/7 and 9/19 speeches were, somehow, by some way, shown or heard widely, what do you think would happen ... ?)

You guys out there should really take this to heart.

- BillC

[EnemyCombatant]

That why I mail out his speeches to thousands of Democrats and initiated the petition for CSpan to carry his speeches.

Because once people can hear him, they will listen.

You are right, once he takes the stage, people will recognize he is the true leader. He is the consensus candidate.

[Dolphins4Gore]

Has anyone found out why there is no video or transcript of his speech in SF? The only one available is LA.

[EnemyCombatant]

This is a report of it by Monica.
But if there is a transcript, she probably would have posted it. But check with her to be sure and let us know.

www.draftgore.com/norecall.htm