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Convention draft? The media speculates
ABC News report on Draft Gore (10/07)
Press Releases
Draft Gore Petition with 100,000 Signatures Delivered to Gore's Office
Draft Gore Hits the Airwaves in Iowa
Draft Gore Petition Crosses 25,000 Mark as Interest in Gore Candidacy Surges
2003 Press Releases
Click here for a list of the press releases from our campaign for the 2004 election.
Articles about Draft Gore
10/8 A Nobel Candidate Newsweek
10/8 True believers refuse to give up on Gore run The Washington Times
10/1 Draft Gore movement picks up steam The Huffington Post
8/30 Columbia group joins effort to recruit Gore for presidential bid Columbia Missourian
7/20 Will Gore step into presidential campaign? Knox News
7/13 PAC group airs national radio campaign for Gore Nashville Business Journal
7/12 "Draft Al Gore" for president Washington Times
7/12 100,000 People Can't Be Wrong? Al Gore Fans Hope So Cleveland Leader
7/5 Warming to a Gore candidacy Union Leader
6/25 Iowa radio ads urge Gore to run Des Moines Register
6/25 Draft Gore ad to run in Iowa CNN Political Ticker
6/25 PAC uses Iowa radio ads to encourage Gore to run for president WhoTV
6/25 Grassroots supporters begin ads to draft Gore in Iowa Raw Story
6/25 Run, Al Run News Channel 9
4/12 The push to get Gore to run heats up Boston Globe
2/27 Some call for sequel, but Gore stays coy USA Today
Draft Gore was mentioned in numerous news shows over the past year, including network segments such as this one:
Al Gore: Waiting In The Wings? CBS News, May 13, 2007
Draft Gore members were interviewed on shows such as:
• Mike Malloy Show, March 18, 2007 • Diego Mulligan show, Santa Fe Public Radio, Dec. 6, 2006 • Jim DeFede Show, AM940 WINZ, Miramar, Florida March 26, 2007 • Nikki Reed, FM22 WNOR, Norfolk, Va, May 24, 2007 • Tom and Rick morning show, FM22 WNOR Interview, Norfolk, VA, June 4 • The Tony Trupiano show, June 26, 2007
Draft Gore Radio Campaign
Draft Gore kicked off a radio ad campaign in June with an ad on the WHO-AM station in Des Moines, Iowa. It was followed in July by two radio spots that ran nationally on the syndicated Stephanie Miller show.
Listen to our original radio ad.
Key Articles About Al Gore
7/28 Gore Leads All Democrats in New Hampshire Poll
5/31 Gore Beats Giuliani, Runs Better Than Any Declared Candidate in New Pennsylvania Poll 5/16 Time Cover Story: The Last Temptation of Al Gore
3/21 Gore takes warming warning to Congress
2/1 Gore Nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
2/26 "An Inconvenient Truth" Wins 2 Oscars
More Gore News: See Draft Gore News Page
The Case For Gore: Op-Eds
The Economist: America’s Next President
Washington Post: Al Gore, Rock Star
San Francisco Chronicle: Al Gore needs to work for global change from the inside
Rolling Stone: Run, Al, Run
San Jose Mercury News: Gore Looks Like a Good Choice
Andy Ostroy on ABC News: Gore Will Run and Win
Boston Globe: Another Chance for Gore
Joe Conason in Salon: Why Do Journalists Suddenly Love Al Gore
New Republic's Martin Peretz: Al Gore in 2008
Ezra Klein of the American Prospect on The New Gore
St. Petersburg Times: For 2008 election, Al Gore could be the real deal
Beaver County Times: Paging Al Gore
Al Gore: The 2008 Election Wild Card: Op-Ed News
Best of the Blogs
What Does Al Know that We Don’t, Steven Weber, Huffington Post
Al Gore: The Next 44 Days, James Boyce, Huffington Post
Al Gore for President, Cenk Uygur
Al and Tipping Gore, David Horton, Huffington Post
For Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008, Tad Daley, AlterNet
Debunking Gore Myths
The Truth About Al Gore's Lifestyle
“Inventing the Internet” Urban Legend
Also read the article in the October '07 Vanity Fair for information on how the media distorted Gore's image during the 2000 campaign and created these and other myths about him.
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