Word: democraticizing
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Gore has not formally announced his candidacy but is the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released yesterday. Only one other candidate--former senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey--is currently contesting Gore for the nomination.
While Gore hammered home familiar Democratic themes of environmental protection and health care reform, he said education would be his top priority.
Gephardt's endorsement, coming nearly a year before the actual primary, gives Gore a powerful ally within the Democratic Party. Gephardt is popular with labor interests and other traditional Democratic constituencies.
They have clashed occasionally. Both ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, after Gore had moved to the Senate, and Gephardt was an opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement Clinton signed in 1993.
At a speech at the ARCO Forum in December 1997, Gephardt attacked the Democratic leadership--and the Clinton administration--for trying to "market a political strategy masquerading as policy."