{"id":14085,"date":"2007-12-31T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14085.html"},"modified":"2007-12-31T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T16:30:14","slug":"wheres-the-gore-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wheres-the-gore-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the Gore endorsement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Random thought of the day: I kind of expected some kind of endorsement from Al Gore by now, and I’m curious if we’ll see one this week.<\/p>\n

Let me concede from the outset I haven’t heard any rumors from anyone about Gore’s intentions, and I’ve been privy to no inside information about what may or may not happen. But I am curious, because a nod from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former VP could be a fairly big deal.<\/p>\n

Back in September, Gore had this to say<\/a> in one interview:<\/p>\n

Will you endorse a candidate in the primary?<\/b><\/p>\n

Odds are that I will.<\/p>\n

Who?<\/b><\/p>\n

I haven’t made that decision yet.<\/p>\n

Do you feel some obligation to endorse the wife of your former boss?<\/b><\/p>\n

Uh … no. I have friendships with her and with the other candidates, and they’re all on equal footing at this point as far as I’m concerned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This touched off a fair amount of media speculation<\/a> about who might get Gore’s support, with most observers expecting his endorsement to go to almost anyone but Clinton.<\/p>\n

But that was nearly five months ago. Since then, we haven’t heard much about this.
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\nI suspect every Democratic candidates would jump at the chance of getting Gore’s endorsement. Indeed, I would imagine that, given just how close the polls are in Iowa, the field is looking at their watches and thinking, “Al, if you’re going to endorse, now might be a good time….”<\/p>\n

So, I’m just throwing this out there for baseless, idle speculation:<\/p>\n

* Who would Gore back?<\/p>\n

* Would he show some flair for the dramatic by hosting a surprise event this week, before the Iowa caucuses?<\/p>\n

* Is there any chance that a leading Dem would balk, given that Gore’s endorsement didn’t work out well for Howard Dean in 2004?<\/p>\n

* Or is the opposite true: Gore’s endorsement would mean far more now than ever before?<\/p>\n

Like I said, it’s just a random thought of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Random thought of the day: I kind of expected some kind of endorsement from Al Gore by now, and I’m curious if we’ll see one this week. Let me concede from the outset I haven’t heard any rumors from anyone about Gore’s intentions, and I’ve been privy to no inside information about what may or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}