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Just to put this nonsense thread to rest:
Sources Al Gore not exploring 2016 presidential bid
and:
Al Gore not planning to run against Hillary advisers say - Michael Hirsh and Kate Bennett - POLITICO
In our great Union's history, we have seen a defeated presidential candidate (but not nominee) come back 4 years later and win the Presidency (Reagan, 1980), we have seen a presidential nominee who lost come back 8 years later and win the presidency (Nixon, 1968) and we have seen the nominee on a presidential ticket that lost come back 12 years later to win the presidency (FDR, 1932). We've seen one nominee from a party run and lose three times within 4 cycles (Bryan 1896, 1900 and 1908), but we have never in our history seen a vanquished candidate or nominee come back 16 years later and take another run for the presidency. Here I am talking about the major party and any truly relevant 3rd party runs. I am not talking about Gus Hall, who ran as the nominee of the American Communist Party Lord knows how many times and fuck, no one cares.
So, that now puts this topic to rest.
Gore would have been a decidedly better president than Bush 43 was, but this is the course of history, and I accept that. Gore's time came and went. Basta.
Sources Al Gore not exploring 2016 presidential bid
Former Vice President Al Gore is not exploring another run for president, said a Gore spokeswoman and two sources close to Gore.
A report published Thursday by BuzzFeed said supporters of the 67-year-old Democrat and Tennessee native "have begun a round of conversations among themselves and with the former vice president about his running for president in 2016."
That's not true, said the spokeswoman and others close to Gore.
"That would be news to me, so I think somebody's off base," said a friend to Gore. "I've heard nothing along these lines, and I'd be very surprised."
Another person close to Gore said late Thursday the reports are incorrect.
and:
Al Gore not planning to run against Hillary advisers say - Michael Hirsh and Kate Bennett - POLITICO
...Mike Feldman, who was Gore’s traveling chief of staff during the 2000 presidential election campaign and speaks to him regularly, says the speculation is probably just “Democrats talking to other Democrats. … I’m not saying there’s nobody out there fantasizing about it, but I haven’t heard anything and I’d be pretty insulted if there were a group of Gore advisers meeting and I wasn’t invited. I just don’t think this is on his mind.”
In our great Union's history, we have seen a defeated presidential candidate (but not nominee) come back 4 years later and win the Presidency (Reagan, 1980), we have seen a presidential nominee who lost come back 8 years later and win the presidency (Nixon, 1968) and we have seen the nominee on a presidential ticket that lost come back 12 years later to win the presidency (FDR, 1932). We've seen one nominee from a party run and lose three times within 4 cycles (Bryan 1896, 1900 and 1908), but we have never in our history seen a vanquished candidate or nominee come back 16 years later and take another run for the presidency. Here I am talking about the major party and any truly relevant 3rd party runs. I am not talking about Gus Hall, who ran as the nominee of the American Communist Party Lord knows how many times and fuck, no one cares.
So, that now puts this topic to rest.
Gore would have been a decidedly better president than Bush 43 was, but this is the course of history, and I accept that. Gore's time came and went. Basta.