Reply #7: Oh please, this is nonsense [View All]

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I'm not saying this to argue against the Gore 2008 idea, but just for the sake of history not being flushed down the toilet: Gore ran in 1988 very much as the first DLC candidate, a hawkish pro-military Democrat who was expected to appeal in the South. "Super Tuesday," basically a Southern regional primary, was put in place specifically to benefit Gore. Instead it benefitted Jesse Jackson, to the rueful amusement of Bill Clinton, who was head of the DLC at the time. As senator he was hardly "at the forefront" of labor issues; his interest was in relatively arcane high-tech matters.