Al Gore 2008

I've been giving this idea some renewed thought. Might start the TL, not sure though. Would you like a Gore 08 TL? Thoughts?
 
Hm, regarding the '08 primary:

OTL Hillary ran the worst managed primary campaign by a major candidate ever.
Not only did she manage to bankrupy what was then the best funded primary campaign ever - mostly via massive overhead (too many good old boys 'n gals from '92 and '96 on the payroll doing nothing useful), the buildup in each state that distinguishes a major candidate from the fly by nights was also less than stellar...
Most importantly the primaries were seen as a formality, the rule changes (from '03 IIRC) were ignored as were the state by state "pecularities" and caucus preparations. The campaign doesn't appear to have understood the rule changes till sometime around Supertuesday, and by then the ship was sinking...
Campaign management appears very ineffective. Mark Penn gets a lot of blame (deservedly), but the rot runs much deeper, again too many old friends from '92 who instinctively operates based on winner-take-all rules rather than the new reality of proportionality & caucuses.

Meanwhile the Obama campaign had the new rules down to a T and invested a lot in caucus preparations.
That's of course one of the ways an underdog can win, by taking advantage of changes in circumstances.
One big question is: would a major campaign (Gore) have been as adroit ?
Who would his advisers have been (Kerry folks from '04 ?, his old crew from '00 ?) and would they be up to speed on the new rules ?

There are at least 3 posibilities:
  1. The prospect of "real competition" (Gore) causes her to take the primary serious and shake up things up much earlier (late '07 ?) - Tough fight
  2. The Clinton campaign is almost as clueless about the primary as OTL, while the Gore campaign is reasonably up to speed - Clinton loses like OTL
  3. Two blind boxers - Neither campaign really understands what has changed and plans more or less for a winner take all campaign and basically ignores the caucuses - anything can happen
 
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