asking Al Gore to run in 2008!
As usual, the Democratic Party.....
Posted March 20th, 2008 by lch1
...is diluting the important issues that are common to all Americans and are converging around issues that divide Americans. What does the Democratic Party really mean (historically) to Americans? Fair taxes, affordable health care, good education and jobs. So what are the Democratic candidates talking about? Race. War. And a food fight about who is right, when they said what, etc., etc.
Time to bring back rational candidates: Al Gore, President and John Edwards, Vice. Yes, Edwards wants to be President--and he can. This is just not his year. But Al Gore and John Edwards deserve their place in the White House. And they represent the best ticket today.
How can we start this draft movement in a very serious way? We need to get this on the cables, in the press, and out there for the Americans to reach out to. NOW!
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On March 20th, 2008 wanbligi said:
With all due respect to Al Gore, we have to be realistic here. The delegate and superdelegate count for each of the Democratic nominees, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are approximately at 1700 and 1500 respectively. The magic number for the Democratic Presidential Nomination is 2025.
From my understanding the delegates won from each respective state are pledged delegates meaning that those delegates are pledged according to the primaries and caucuses held to date and cannot be changed.
Now the superdelegates of which there are approximately 800 in number are the ones that can be changed anytime. The point of the matter is that Al Gore as far as I know has no delegates won in any of the states because he chose not to be on the ballot. So the scenario of the Democratic National Convention in Denver not having a clear winner at the time of the convention maybe a possibility, but for either Obama or Hillary that trail to the nomination will be very near the 2025 necessary for the nomination, whereas Al Gore would not have any delegates at the time of the convention at his own choosing to not be on the ballots in all the state's primaries and caucuses.
I know alot of us wanted Al Gore as President, but the realism is the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee will be either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Al Gore is one of the superdelegates and understands the role of the superdelegates and you can bet that Al Gore will have an impact on helping those undecided superdelegates make their all important decision on which of the two remaining Democratic candidates will get those remaining votes. All our prayers should be with the whole process as we move forward to its completion. Once that decision is made in Denver, we as Democrats need to unite around the nominee so that we can take back the White House in November 2008. Thank you.