Today Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work on making the world aware of global warming. Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Oscar, he won an Emmy for the cable channel he founded, Current TV and now the Nobel Peace Prize. So, will he run for president? From the AP article on this story:
“He seems happier and liberated in the years since his loss in 2000. Perhaps winning the Nobel and being viewed as a prophet in his own time will be sufficient,” says Sherrill.
Two Gore advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to share his thinking, said the award will not make it more likely that he will seek the presidency. If anything, the Peace Prize makes the rough-and-tumble of a presidential race less appealing to Gore, they said, because now he has a huge, international platform to fight global warming and may not want to do anything to diminish it.
One of the advisers said that while Gore is unlikely to rule out a bid in the coming days, the prospects of the former vice president entering the fray in 2008 are “extremely remote.”
A small window is open since he is not ruling it out. It doesn’t seem like he will run because he has been asked so many times that he basically downplays the question and changes the subject to something he is more interested in. In a recent CNN poll (below) Gore places 4th as the presidential nominee . It would certainly be interesting if he did enter the race. The world would be a different place if Al Gore won in 2000. Oh yeah…he did win.
Latest Polls from CNN
Registered Democrats’ choice for nominee for 2008*
Clinton - 39%
Obama - 20%
Edwards - 15%
Gore - 13%
Richardson - 4%
Kucinich - 3%
Biden - 2%
Gravel - 1%
Dodd - **
