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The man stood from the ashes of his legacy as Vice-President, with tarnish of his brutal defeat four years prior. The King had returned. For the third time, he stood on the steps of the Smith County Courthouse, in Carthage, Tennessee to announce his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. 56 years old, intelligent as they come, with the party united behind him, prepared to help him achieve what he so slightly missed just four years earlier, Al Gore Jr. was ready. Running on the platform slightly different from his run in 2000, he focused on the wars and on the environment, he focused on restructuring the economy, he campaigned on returning to the Party of Roosevelt. "... And so today my friends, we have a chance to take our proud party back to where it once hailed from. To the roots of party we go to the time of the great Franklin Delano Roosevelt, where government is involved in useful, helpful, and meaningful ways. Not clouding our every day lives with useless regulations and red tape that only benefit the most affluent among us. In the last four years, we've watched as George W. Bush has taken the great fiscal power that we had, with a balanced budget and a large budget surplus, to nothing, and we're on our way to a gigantic spending deficit all to be produced under his watch. If you elect me, as your President, I shall return to the successful economic policies of the administration I was in, and further expand on them. To help the common man, rather than just wealth and the powerful. Today we take the first step towards rebuilding our country, and to returning the power to the people. Thank you all, and god bless the United States of America!" - Al Gore announcing his candidacy for the Presidency on July 4th, 2003
CNN Election Tracker: 2004
The news that former Vice-President Al Gore would be running for the Presidency once more has shaken the political establishment. Many democratic hopefuls, including Senators John Kerry and John Edwards may now seriously reconsider their plans. Vice-President Gore leads in all major polls by sizable margins, and the President's popularity rating continues to plummet as the war in Iraq seems to be going nowhere. With the tax cut plan enacted by President Bush in 2001 and earlier year in 2003, failing to show any kind of job stimulus and creation, many are wondering what happened to fiscal responsibility. Already from the Clinton years just three years ago when the country had a balanced budget and a budget surplus, President Bush has reduced it to nothingness, and with two costly wars on our hands, it doesn't seem that we'll be able to sustain such a long period of spending levels this high without more tax revenue coming in. And Al Gore is in the perfect position to beat President Bush on all of these issues, as they debated on them a mere three years ago.
Preliminary Democratic Primary Polls
Former Vice-President Al Gore: Nationwide - 45%, Iowa - 43%, New Hampshire - 46%, South Carolina - 45%
US Senator from Massachusetts John Kerry: Nationwide - 23%, Iowa - 21%, New Hampshire - 24%, South Carolina - 20%
US Senator from North Carolina John Edwards: Nationwide - 22%, Iowa - 23%, New Hampshire - 21%, South Carolina - 25%
Preliminary General Election Polls
Al Gore vs. George Bush: 45/46
John Kerry vs. George Bush: 43/49
John Edwards vs. George Bush: 41/47