Reply #25: Just F.Y.I. Gore's family was lower middle class when he was a child [View All]

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When the family was in Washington (his Dad was a Congressman and then a Senator), they lived in a "family hotel" (the equivalent of an okay to crumby apartment complex) run by cousins, because the cousins gave them a deal on the rent. Gore shared a room with his older sister Nancy until she left for college.

It was only after his father retired from the Senate that the family became well off. (By that time, Gore was a college graduate, and serving in the army.) The family was well off, but not super rich by any stretch of the imagination. Since he left the Vice Presidency, Gore has been very successful in his various business ventures (including his sustainable investment firm, Current TV, Apple and Google). Now Gore is reported to be extremely wealthy.

All of the press coverage about how Gore could run in 2008 mention that Gore is widely believed to be the only Dem who could jump in late and compete financially with HRC. He could write his own check for the primaries - - or he could tap into his huge rolodex of donors and raise a mountain of campaign cash that way, or he could raise a record breaking amount online.