Along with our coverage of the presidential campaigns of cinematic icon Christopher Walker, supervillainotic icon General Zod, and, of course, the Squidtastic campaigns of Admiral Akbar and the mighty Cthulhu (Ia, Ia, Cthulhu ftagn, baby!), we at the raincoaster blog are pleased to offer equal time to Draft Gore 2008. The only real difference raincoaster can see among them is that the Draft Gore people appear to be serious. raincoaster shall therefore, out of respect and an infinitely refined sense of tact, refrain from posting the Celebrity Death Match she found on YouTube between Al Gore and Weird Al Yankovic.

DraftGore2008 is a community-based effort to organize grassroots and grasstops support to draft former Vice-President Al Gore, Jr. as the 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee. Al Gore has not publicly expressed an interest in in this candidacy. On the contrary, he has said in the past that he will not run. However, many of us believe Al Gore is the best hope America has for the future and, until he says the words “If drafted, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve,” many people will be working to make "what should have been” a reality.

The overall project is based-upon still-developing "distributed campaign" models. For more information on distributed campaigns, see this article by Ryan W. Ozimek. The underlying mission is to achieve a delegate count at the National Democratic Convention in 2008 to nominate Al Gore as the candidate in the November election. A strategic plan detailing the organization is currently in development, and will be available in early June at this location.

The DraftGore2008.org project was originally conceived in early 2005 by Eric Brunner-Williams and Dwight Meredith, of the blog, Wampum. In October, 2005, they drafted Wampum co-editor and Democratic political operative MB Williams to manage the overall campaign. Eric currently serves as system administrator, and Dwight as legal advisor.

DraftGore2008.org is registered with the FEC as a Non-Connected Committee PAC. Contributions are not tax deductible.