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Article: GORE GAINS SAVVY IN SECOND BID TO WIN NEW YORK VICE PRESIDENT SKILLED IN WOOING FACTIONS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2000
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NEW YORK - Here on the streets of New York, Al Gore met
political disaster 12 years ago, fleeced like a Tennessee lamb on
Broadway.
Just 39, bursting with youthful ambition, Gore got a humiliating
10 percent of the vote in the 1988 New York primary, finishing well
behind the victor, Michael Dukakis, and the runner-up, Jesse
Jackson.
But a dozen years later Gore is back, confident, and favored to
defeat local hero Bill Bradley in the New York primary. The streets
that once held torment may serve as a victory lap.
"In 1988 he was barely constitutionally old enough to run and
wasn't comfortable with either the social or cultural currents of New
York," said Mark Green, the city's top elected ...