Al Gore: When Gore couldn't deliver the 2000 election, many pundits wrote him off as an unelectable biohazard. But upon closer examination, Gore's not the unwanted candidate many make him out to be.
While it's true he lost the election to George W Bush, it was the closest and most controversial race the country's ever seen, requiring Supreme Court intervention before an actual winner was named. Plus, he won the popular vote, meaning more people voted for him than for Bush, but lost out due to the minutia of the Electoral College.
Finally, he's still a Southern boy, from a southern family, and brings that folksy touch that Obama so desperately needs. Remember, the last time the nation elected a non-Southern democrat was 1960, with John F Kennedy. Obama, whether he likes it or not, must make headway down in Dixie, and Gore is one of the more feasible options.
Image: Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks to media persons outside the Nordic House in Torshavn, Faroe Islands.
Photograph: Allagui/AFP/Getty Images
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