Operation Gore Watch

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.

Hopes for a Gore candidacy are not limited to California’s high-tech and film set. Across the country, some Gore fundraisers from his 2000 raced are staying out of the 2008 campaign or are prepared to switch from a current hopeful to Gore should he decide to run.

The no-clear-favorite perspective in the technology industry was borne out by the current candidates’ fundraising. Although Clinton came in first, Obama was a close second.

Joe Cotchett, a lawyer with Silicon Valley ties who is raising money for Democrat John Edwards, said tech leaders are uncertain.

“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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