At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.

In 2005 when accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award, former Vice President Al Gore's speech was " Please don't recount this vote.

" He said Gore's speech " was one no decent politician could have delivered " and was " bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies.

but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

" Gore's attorneys therefore understood that they could fight on, and could petition the Florida Supreme Court to repudiate the notion that December 12 was final under Florida law.

Cato has often criticized Al Gore's stances on the issue of global warming and agreed with the Bush administration's skeptical attitude toward the Kyoto protocols.

Ginsburg administered, at his request, Vice President Al Gore's oath of office to a second term during the second presidential inauguration of Clinton on January 20, 1997.

Nomi's cover of Lesley Gore's 1964 hit " You Don't Own Me " has been featured on the nationally broadcast The Rush Limbaugh Show as the " Gay Update Theme ".

An article in Malaysia Today commented that " Gore's comments constituted a none-too-subtle attack on Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and more generally on governments, including Japan, that resist US demands for further market reforms.

Gore's interest in politics was reignited by a junior seminar taught by Neustadt in 1968 on the presidency.

In 2001 political psychologist Aubrey Immelman made an IQ estimation of G. W. Bush based on the SAT Reasoning Test results of Bush ( 1206 ) and Al Gore, who achieved IQ scores of 133 and 134 in his school years: " It's tempting to employ Al Gore's IQ: SAT ratio of 134: 1355 as a formula for estimating Bush's probable intelligence quotient — an exercise in fuzzy statistics that predicts a score of 119.

Gore's victory, coupled with that of Frank G. Clement for governor of Tennessee over incumbent Gordon Browning on the same day, is widely regarded as a major turning point in Tennessee political history and as marking the end of statewide influence for E. H. Crump, the Memphis political boss.

Other prominent issues in this race included Gore's opposition to the Vietnam War, his vote against Everett Dirksen's amendment on prayer in public schools, and his opposition to appointing Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the U. S. Supreme Court.

He also brought on the " magical " Michael Whouley who was Al Gore's national field director and would later become the Democratic National Committee's National Field Director for Kerry-Edwards.

In Al Gore's Our Choice, he uses part of the book as an attempt to revive debate on the DSCOVR payload.

Wheeler is often credited for steering public opinion in Gore's favor with a series of speeches in which, with characteristic hyperbole, he repeatedly implied that he would personally play the part of the Blind Cowboy's horse on his ride to Washington.

Butterworth was the Florida chair of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and chose to not use his capacities as Attorney-General to influence court decisions on whether all the votes would be counted, so as not to have a conflict of interest.

They took on the right-wing theocracy directly, with songs like " Freedom of Expression " that skewered the censorial nature of the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ), founded by Al Gore's wife Tipper.

Corn Man was a character invented by Al Gore's campaign during the 2000 Democratic Primaries to draw attention to the refusal of the opposing candidate, Bill Bradley, to take part in a series of debates on farm policy.

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore's call for more military spending than those of opponent George W. Bush was seen more as an admission that Bush was correct on the issue.

He also argues that the media frequently ignore substantive issues and concentrate on trivial ones instead ( in the 2000 presidential election, for example, professing bewilderment in response to the candidates ' budget proposals while writing repeatedly and at length about irrelevant issues such as Gore's choice of clothes, or in 2006 writing articles about Barack Obama's middle name.

The AP national newswire covered one such protest in November, 1980 when a DJ on the station began playing Lesley Gore's " It's My Party ( and I'll Cry if I Want To )" continuously for hours when President Ronald Reagan was first elected.

In August 2007, she appeared in the documentary, The Daily Mail Diet, on Al Gore's Current TV internet video site, where she showed a painting of Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre behind a prawn cocktail, which Kelly said represented " a little bit of taste, but very predictable, bland and no surprises — it's from a different age where people had a more limited palate ", and that she had depicted him as a stern figure as he " loves the 50s he wants people to go back to a time of discipline ".

Ruth mistakenly inserts Lesley Gore's song " Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows " into her car stereo before beginning her and Marge's wild night out ; later, Chief Wiggum plays the song on his police cruiser's stereo as " appropriate " car chase music.

Rogers may also be noted as the contender who opposed future Vice President Al Gore during the Democratic Party primary, in Gore's first election in 1976 for the United States House of Representatives.

Hardison was quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer citing Biblical predictions of the age and end of the world, and saying neither condones Al Gore's view points being taught within school.

Current Texas Governor, Republican Rick Perry, who at the time was a Democrat, was Gore's campaign chairman in Texas for his 1988 campaign.

* February 20 – John Kerry, Congressman Bernie Sanders ( I-VT ), DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, Democratic Party strategist Dane Strother, and The Nation periodical urge Ralph Nader not to run for president, believing he is to blame for Al Gore's defeat in the 2000 election.

However, Kerry's victory in Connecticut was not as large as Al Gore's lead in 2000, when the then vice president won the state by 17. 47 % percent and a majority of all the state's counties.

Gore's first hit was followed by many others, including: " Judy's Turn to Cry " ( US # 5 ), the sequel to " It's My Party "; " She's a Fool " ( US # 5 ); the protofeminist million-selling " You Don't Own Me ", which held at # 2 for three weeks behind The Beatles ' " I Want To Hold Your Hand "; " That's the Way Boys Are " ( US # 12 ); " Maybe I Know " ( US # 14 / UK # 20 ); " Look of Love " ( US # 27 ); and Grammy-nominated " Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows " ( US # 13 ), from the 1965 movie " Ski Party ".

* “ Judy's Turn to Cry ” ( 1963 ) was Lesley Gore's response to her own “ It's My Party ( And I'll Cry If I Want To )"”, which had been released earlier in the same year.

" ' I reject Gore's efforts to try to pin labels ,' Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri told reporters after the event.

Later that year he had a UK No. 1 hit with former Hatfield and the North backing singer Barbara Gaskin covering Lesley Gore's Its My Party ( and I'll Cry if I Want To ).

* Ken Freedman, general manager of the longest continuously-operating freeform radio station, WFMU-FM, worked at WCBN from 1977 to 1983 and was the DJ who marked the election of Ronald Reagan by playing Lesley Gore's " It's My Party ( And I'll Cry If I Want To ).

On April 24, 2009, during a congressional hearing, Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn asked Gore if he was a member of KPCB, and then inquired: " The legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from ?” She cited constituent concerns about Gore's role with KPCB as the reason for her inquiry.

He was well known for acting in such Irish-themed plays as Catherine Gore's King O ' Neil ( 1835 ), his own St. Patrick's Eve ( 1837 ), Samuel Lover's Rory O ' More ( 1837 ) and The White Horse of the Peppers ( 1838 ), Anna Marie Hall's The Groves of Blarney ( 1838 ), Eugene Macarthy's Charles O ' Malley ( 1838 ), and Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs ( 1839 ) and The Irish Attorney ( 1840 ).

Quayle criticized Gore's book Earth in the Balance with specific page references, though his claims were subsequently criticized by the liberal group FAIR for inaccuracy.

In the final October 9, 1996 Vice Presidential Debate against Al Gore ( held as the Dole – Kemp ticket trailed badly in the national polls ), Kemp was soundly beaten, and Al Gore's performance is considered one of the best modern debate performances.

Also, Gore's similarities to Clinton allowed him to push some of his key campaign themes, such as centrism and generational change.

As concerns about climate change moved more into the mainstream, from the connections drawn between global warming and Hurricane Katrina to Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, many environmental groups refocused their efforts.

Since at least the 1970s, Anglo-Catholicism has been dividing into two distinct camps, along a fault-line which can perhaps be traced back to Bishop Charles Gore's work in the 19th century.

Gore's work, however, bearing the mark of liberal Protestant higher criticism, paved the way for an alternative form of Anglo-Catholicism influenced by liberal theology.

In 2000 Republican George W. Bush won 53 % to Democrat Al Gore's 42 %.

In 2000 George W. Bush defeated Al Gore with 52 % of the vote to Gore's 43 %.

In 2000, Bush received 78, 703 votes ( 71. 16 %) to Democrat Al Gore's 29, 600 ( 26. 76 %).

In 2000, Bush received 21, 887 votes ( 56. 28 %) to Democrat Al Gore's 15, 959 ( 41. 04 %).

In 2000, Bush received 148, 602 votes ( 59. 37 %) to Democrat Al Gore's 95, 442 ( 38. 13 %).

In 2000, Bush received 22, 358 votes in the county ( 58. 48 %) to Democrat Al Gore's 14, 371 ( 37. 59 %).

She supported Al Gore's 2000 US presidential bid, and also endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the presidency in 2008.

" Partisans have so often used this distorted quotation to discredit him that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf ( and others who participated in actually inventing the Internet ) have made a point of noting Gore's support and the error of the discreditors.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.