Meatstick Opinion: Al Gore Would Have A Good Shot

The Air America talk hosts gathered in Seattle for a town hall forum session a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I was out of town and could not attend. I ended up catching the forum on the Seattle Channel here on local cable, but for anyone else who is interested in watching, it can be found online here.

Cenk Uygur, co-host of The Young Turks (Air America's morning drive program), brought up a really good point on the issue of which Democratic candidate is the most electable. He feels that the most electable candidate is Al Gore, who isn't even currently running for President. His reasoning makes a lot of sense:

"The reason I bring up Al Gore...I know he's electable because he already won once, he won the popular vote...He's already won an election."

He is definitely right on that account. Al Gore had 50,999,897 votes vs. George Bush's 50,456,002 votes.
But the real point of his argument is what he said next:

"Who voted for Gore last time that thinks now, 'you know I should have voted for Bush.' No one, No one! And who voted for Bush that would love to make up for their mistake. A lot of people."

Cenk Uygur is definitely on to something. Another reason I like Cenk is because, like me, he used to be a Republican.

Bottome Line:
If Al Gore could pull the popular vote (and arguably the electoral vote) after the debacle surrounding the Clinton administration, just think of the votes he could pull in the wake of this 8 year mess.