Gore supporters fall short in effort to put him on Mich. ballot

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I don't know that this matters too much, since Michigan and Florida have both shot themselves in the feet with their too early primary dates.

Gore supporters fall short in effort to put him on Mich. ballot
10/23/2007, 4:52 p.m. EDT

By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Efforts to collect enough signatures to put former Vice President Al Gore on Michigan's Jan. 15 Democratic presidential primary ballot have fallen short.

Supporters needed to collect 12,396 valid signatures by Tuesday but collected only around 3,000, said Bob Alexander, co-chairman of the Michigan Draft Gore group. He said in a statement that the group was able to raise only about a fifth of the $12,500 it needed to mount a full-time petition drive...

...He still could get on the Jan. 15 ballot as a write-in candidate if he files a form with the Michigan secretary of state's office by Jan. 4.

Eight Democratic presidential candidates were on the primary ballot, but four of them — Joe Biden, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson — withdrew because Michigan broke national Republican and Democratic party rules by deciding to hold its primary before Feb. 5.

Gore backers favor a presidential caucus because it could give some of those candidates a chance to still pick up national convention delegates...


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