I haven’t blogged about the upcoming 2008 presidential election yet, so here’s the first of what will likely be many posts building up to the next election. I was looking through a ton of polls taken in the last month and a half regarding the democratic candidates for 2008 and one thing consistently stood out at me: Al Gore hasn’t declared himself as running – he’s even said he won’t – and yet he’s still named by about 10-15% of the people polled as their first choice of the current candidates, with Hillary in the lead at about 40-45%. For someone who has not even declared a bid for the presidency, 15% is damn good. That being said, I would love to see him officially toss his hat in to the ring. I think an outspoken environmentalist is what this country needs, and he certainly has the experience. He’s was the VP for 8 years, spent the 8 years before that as a Senator, and another 8 years before that as congressman. That’s more experience as an elected official (on a National level, none the less) than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. If that’s not enough, he’s been touring internationally for a few years to help combat global warming (Or do they call it “climate change” now? I lost track..) in such an effective manner that it earned him the honor of a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I’m clearly not anywhere close to the first person to say this, but I’m going to say it anyways: I would like to see Al Gore on the ballot in 2008.