H. Hart Gore Quotations

Al Gore has lined up the constituencies. The women, the unions, the minorities, all of the important constituencies. The question is: Will Bill Bradley have a message that is strong enough to carry him?

This race has gone from being one-sided to competitive. I think we make a mistake to think that Al Gore is being routed out of this campaign. He's still in the lead and he's the formidable candidate.

I think Al Gore really needs to find his voice, and I think he needs to find his own style. I think, up to this stage, he hasn't found that.

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general.

The beauty is that Bill Clinton can frame the race better than anyone else. But against that, it makes the moral issue that much more important, and Al Gore wants to make this about economic issues.