Apparently it won't be a full-fledged draft effort like before, but Monica Friedlander is revving up DraftGore.com, same as we've been talking about doing with AlGore.org.

Looks like we could all be in business again! :clap:

YES !

What kind of effort will it be?

RESURRECTION!!!! I'm ready :bow:

I'm getting the information second hand, so I can't give you more details than that. Someone in Netroots for Gore apparently talked to Monica, and that's what the person reported back, that they'd be starting up again, but probably not as a full-out draft effort. My guess is it'll be kind of similar in scale to what we're talking about doing with AGO. Maybe she'll raise money for ads again, or maybe they'll get involved in the effort to contact superdelegates or write letters to editors, etc. According to the person I got the information from, the DraftGore.com website was to reflect the renewed activity as early as possibly today, but I checked, and I don't see anything different from what's been there since the campaign stopped in November.

Checkbook is open, need an address. :D

:clap: Good thing I didn't remove the 3 DraftGore.com stickers from my roof - Not only is my car dry, but now I'm ready again :?: still :wacko: ...

Just count me in!!! :spikey:

I still have three bumper stickers on my car, and I have hundreds of buttons and bumper stickers in my closet that never got sold or distributed. When I was trying to give myself a reality check a few months ago, I almost threw them out. Maybe it's good that I didn't! :D

DraftGore.com has officially reactivated as of today - they have taken down the link
that previously stated they had ended their efforts and have put up
the Newsweek story by Eleanor Clift in their news section. As EM suggested, we'll have to wait and see how "active" they actually become, but nonetheless, this is very good news.

While these are all good developments, what is the plan? One of the reasons that the draft movement has failed in the past was that there wasn't a coherant central plan. Too many people were all going off in different directions, doing their own thing.
Right now the nomination lies in the hands of the Superdelegates. Is there a plan to identifiy these people and target them?

I agree, we should somehow target the super delegates to make sure that Gore's is the first (and only) name that comes to their minds when they think of a unity candidate.

I agree, there needs to be a coordinated plan with all parties involved. :!:

James (A., not S.), you've been at this long enough to know that there's no way to unite all the different factions in the draft movement. I won't get into naming names, but you know who the players are, you know which ones are generally cooperative and which ones are not, and that's not going to change. We tried really hard last spring to put together a unity group under the name American for Gore. It was pretty much of a joke--unity in name only. The main players were all AGO people (excluding the proprietor of AGO, who had nothing to do with anything we did in the campaign), and the other people were from Netroots for Gore. The Netroots people have been wonderfully active, and working with them was very productive. I hope that relationship will continue as we go forward. Beyond that, trying to get everyone on the same page is, I'm afraid, an impossible dream.

We had a plan at AGO, we realized our objectives (minus the big prize :rolleyes: ), and we will have a plan again if/when we start up again. I would hope that the Netroots and other groups will work with us, and I will try again to be the bridge between AGO and some of the other groups. Maybe this time we'll succeed.

Here's some fun news out of Nashville, and perhaps I owe Steve Gill an apology. On the top of the front page of The (Nashville) City Paper was this headline, "Gill: Gore could create 'dream ticket.'"

Here's the link. You can vote in a poll. I did and the vote was at 50/50%, no numbers of voters given. Progress folks, not perfection! :clap:

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=59128

Can't find the poll.
Is it gone?

Oh, you have to create a username/password/login to The City Paper in order to vote. It was worth the trouble to me to do it.

The poll was on the first page. Try this.

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/

Yeah, I couldn't find the poll either. :?:

Thanks TNblue !