{"id":1493,"date":"2008-02-17T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/17\/al-gore-for-president\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T10:17:31","slug":"al-gore-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/al-gore-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore for President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newsmax, The Telegraph is outlining a scenario by which Al Gore becomes the Democratic Nominee for President.<!--more-->In the unattributed report from Newsmax (meaning I can&#8217;t give you a link), Gore comes into play after Clinton regains enough momentum in March to deflate Obama&#8217;s current surge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Clinton camp reportedly believes that if Obama doesn&#8217;t deliver a knock-out blow before the March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio, Hillary could win those races and regain the momentum, with many superdelegates uniting behind her to preserve party unity.That could lead to bitter battles at the Democratic convention in August, &#8220;which could even end with Al Gore, the former vice president, emerging as a compromise candidate,&#8221; according to The Telegraph.A Clinton source told the paper: &#8220;There&#8217;s a 5 percent chance of that happening, but that&#8217;s 5 percent too high.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newsmax, The Telegraph is outlining a scenario by which Al Gore becomes the Democratic Nominee for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-o5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}