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Article: Could Al Gore clinch the US Presidency? ; When Al Gore lost the 2000 US Presidential race, it seemed he had blown his chance. But,asSean O'Driscoll reports from New York, the White House could be his ... if he wanted it
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 16, 2007
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It was made out in multi-coloured crayon, strikingly amateurish
in the time of $$100m presidential campaigns.
This week, however, Gore's many beseechers went big and paid
$$65,000 for a full page advert in the New York Times, pleading with
him to run for President.
The advert's tone was one of pop psychology rather than blunt
campaigning.
"You say you have fallen out of love with politics and you have
every reason to feel that way," it said, in soft, healing tones.
The ad was paid for by Draft Gore, the biggest and most
professional of three separate campaigns that urge the former Vice
President to run.
After Gore shared the Noble Peace Prize late last week, the
American media were ...