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Kudos to the editorial staff of the University of Washington’s “Daily.”

In yesterday’s paper, an editorial raised an interesting suggestion: How about Al Gore waits until 2012 to run for president, but on the Green Party ticket.

Citing Gore quotes from the Time Magazine story, “The Last Temptation of Al Gore”, it is obvious, the editorial said, that Gore needs to wait a bit longer to make his run.

They write:

“With Gore’s popular support and the Green Party’s national infrastructure, the Greens might be established as a credible third political party by 2010; and then, with Iraq hopefully behind us, America may finally be ready to entertain the possibility of electing a president that will tackle climate change and put America on the path to sustainable environmentalism. What better 2012 candidate for the Greens, and for America, than Al Gore?”

Point taken. But can Americans bank on the instability of the Green Party? I still find it hard to believe that they can only keep running 73-year-old Ralph Nader out there.

(P.S. - Kudos to Nader for sending all 1,300 or so students at the Medill School of Journalism copies of “What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News” by Eric Alterman)

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Fun stuff. Read about it in New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer from yesterday.

Big ups to the 92nd Street YMCA. They always manage to get good speakers up there.

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James Boyce, a Democratic party strategist and columnist for the Huffington Post, begged readers to send Al Gore letters urging him to run for president in 2008.

If anything, I think, Gore should get a few interesting letters.

Here’s Gore’s address, in case you want to join Boyce’s unofficial letter-writing campaign:

The Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue
Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203

I know I’ll be sending him a letter. (Well, maybe an e-mail.)

If you send him a letter, please comment on this post!

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I found myself scratching my head yet again at another series of Al Gore quotes.

On tonight’s “Nightline” (and in a story on ABC.com), Gore was quoted as saying that while he’s “not a candidate,” he may still run in 2008.

“Look, we’re a year and half away from this election,” he said, “[I] see no need to say, ‘Okay. I’m not ever going to even think about that in the future.’”

Yet another hazy statement.

The interview seems to be a profile of Gore before the release of his new book, “The Assault on Reason.” In the book, Gore evidently lashes out at President George W. Bush, but tries to dismiss claims that it’s partisan politics. “When our country made a decision to invade Iraq, it’s too partisan to simply blame that on the current president,” Gore said in the interview.

Well, I’ll be taking a look at this interview tonight. (Hopefully it’ll be up on YouTube tomorrow.)

But what do you folks think; Will he run? If he does, would you vote for him?

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Laura Kurtzman of the Associated Press wrote a cool feature piece that was featured in newspapers and on Web sites all over the country today about Al Gore’s supporters in Silicon Valley. (Kurtzman, a great political writer works out of the AP’s Sacramento bureau.)

She writes:

He is one reason that enthusiasm and fundraising in Silicon Valley for any of the current candidates has been noticeably muted even though candidates such as Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois have come courting.

“The candidate of Silicon Valley is Al Gore,” he said. “But he’s not running.”

Keep your eye out for Kurtzman’s stuff over the next few months, folks.

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It looks as if Al Gore is gaining even more support for a potential presidential run next year, even though he says he’s not running.

CBS News reported today about DraftGore.com’s swelling membership numbers. The site claims membership of over 77,000 people.

This, despite Gore’s repeated claims that he has no plans to run.

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Even without an active campaign, former veep Al Gore is stealing the show. And perhaps even some write-in votes.

According to a CNN.com report, projections have Gore stealing about 12 percent of votes in the Democratic Party primary.

I’m actually a bit surprised. Although I’ve been waiting for him to throw his hat in the ring, I didn’t expect him to be this popular.

The question is, if he continues to wait, will he be as popular?

A bigger question: Will Gore even run?

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It seems that Al Gore’s backers in 2000 are holding out.

No, I don’t mean they’re not giving me money. In a Washington Times article today, Christina Bellantoni reports that many of his former campaign contributors are withholding their dough until Gore throws his hat in the ring for 2008.

The ones who aren’t holding back? Well, they’re throwing money at Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

It will be interesting to see what happens. I wonder how long Gore can hold off for.

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The San Antonio Express-News reported several days ago that Al Gore is barring the media from covering his keynote address at the American Institute of Architects’ convention on Saturday.

It’s fairly safe to assume that Gore will be discussing eco-friendly, or green, architecture.

In a column yesterday on MySA.com, run in part by the Express-News, Gore is shooting himself in the foot. Jaime Castillo writes:

Gore’s decision to lock out the media, however, has robbed the AIA of a monumental public relations opportunity.

Fresh off writing the best-selling book “An Inconvenient Truth” and starring in the Oscar-winning documentary of the same name, Gore was going to be AIA’s version of a Super Bowl halftime show.

At least he’s still showing up to this speech, because he canceled a speech next week at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Hmm.

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Former veep Al Gore canceled a gig as the keynote speaker at next week’s FMI Show Plus Marketechnics, according to an article in today’s Chicago Sun-Times.

Why’d he go and do that? Gore cited personal reasons.

I’m keeping my eye on this, although it’s probably nothing.

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