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Tonight, Al Gore officially endorsed Barack Obama in Detroit, Michigan. In a rousing speech given in true Gore style, the man who most of us believe should have been president in 2000 vowed to give his full support to the presumptive Democratic nominee. For those who wish to support Obama's campaign via Al Gore's website, you can go to https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/gore?source=AlGoreEmail.

Needless to say, our Gore activities were suspended a while ago and our campaign is officially over. Let's all do what we can to take back the White House in November.

In November of 2007, AlGore.org suspended its active campaign to get Al Gore to be a candidate iin the 2008 race for the White House. At that time, we informed all of our organizers that we were going into a dormant mode. Publicly, we remain dormant, but we are carefully watching the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. As of this writing, Obama is ahead in delegates, but both candidates continue to split the available delegates in such a way that neither may have enough to be nominated on the first ballot at the convention in August. The next (and last) major state as far as delegates go is Pennsylvania. Depending on what happens there in April, we may decide that it's time to swing into action again.

If Clinton and Obama continue to do damage to each other's campaigns, if they continue to split the delegates, if it appears that the Democratic Party will be divided rather than united going into the convention, it may become evident that the party needs someone who can unite the Democrats, and most importantly, someone who can beat John McCain in November. To our way of thinking, the obvious someone is Al Gore.

We're not the only ones entertaining this notion. There continue to be many articles written about Gore as the unity or compromise candidate. Here are a few of the more recent ones:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/al-de-gore_b_90064.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/news/columnists/only_gore_can_stop_...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/119851
http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/?m=200803
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-kitman/al-gore-for-president_b_9033...

While everyone understands that there are major obstacles standing between Al Gore and the nomination, there are various scenarios that, while long shots, could come to pass. We remain realistic about the situation, but we also feel that if there's any chance at all that we can somehow make our dream a reality, we need to try, but anything we would do would have to be ethical, reasonable, and realistic, and at this point, the options for us are few.

So we watch, and we wait. We'll keep you posted . . .

Posted March 18th, 2008 by earthmother
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* Al Gore

Dear Organizers:

I had hoped that October would have been the last agenda of this type that we'd send out because I believed that Gore would get in the race after the Nobel Peace Prize announcement. As we all know, that hasn't happened. But we aren't giving up our campaign to get him in the White House. The November agenda is aimed at concentrating our efforts in ways that can still be effective. Please read through it and engage in as many activities as you can.

Despite not being included as a candidate in the latest DFA (Democracy for America) poll, Al Gore has taken first place over all the declared candidates. DFA provided a space for a write-in vote, allowing people to cast their vote for Al Gore.

Here are the current standings:

Candidate %
Al Gore 32.21%
John Edwards 22.09%
Dennis Kucinich 16.93%
Barack Obama 13.93%
Hillary Clinton 5.85%

You can vote in the poll and review the results here (one vote only per e-mail address): http://democracyforamerica.com/pulsepoll. You don't need to be a member of DFA to vote in the poll. Just write in Gore's name, in all three boxes if you like, and submit your vote.

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Ex-Vice President Al Gore's chances of winning the peace ...

(10-10) 18:28 PDT San Francisco --

He has been honored with an Emmy and an Oscar as an innovator and environmental leader, but supporters of former Vice President Al Gore say he deserves still more - the White House.

Hundreds of loyal "Draft Gore" activists in California and around the nation hope Gore hits a trifecta of public recognition on Friday when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is announced. The award of a Nobel Prize could prompt the 2000 Democratic presidential candidate to change his mind and launch a 2008 presidential run, they believe.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/11/MNUKSNN42.DT...

The America for Gore Coalition acts as a portal to most of the legitimate Draft Gore groups in the country. AlGore.org is a proud member of America for Gore, and while we hope everyone who visits AGO will join one of our groups or start one in their area, we also encourage people to visit America for Gore so they can be involved in other organizations' Gore activities as well.

You can access America for Gore at: http://www.americaforgore.org/.

MICHIGAN PETITION CAMPAIGN TO PUT GORE ON PRIMARY BALLOT NOW ENABLES SUPPORTERS TO CONTRIBUTE $ THROUGH PAYPAL

Needing contributions from Draft Gore supporters everywhere, in order to make a success of their put-Gore-on-the-primary-ballot petition campaign, Michigan Draft Gore leaders have opened a Paypal business account. Here are instructions for donors with or without a personal Paypal account:

If you have a Paypal account, log in to it, click on send money, for payment type choose "other," choose an amount, and send it to VolstoDraftGore2008@gmail.com

Dear Organizers:

The October Gore Group Agenda is now available. You will find it in five attachments below:

1) The October Agenda
2) The sign-in sheets
3) The petition
4) The October "Welcome" statement
5) The list of AGO regional and state directors

Please do everything you can to make your activities count this month. It matters now more than ever!

--Karen

Karen Wunderman
Chief of Staff, Volunteer Division
AlGore.org

To see a listing of Gore's scheduled appearances for the remainder of 2007 and beyond, go here: http://www.algore.org/blog/earthmother/al_gores_schedule