Gore Continues To Leave The Door Open, While Obama Struggles To Gain Traction

If you have been paying attention to polls over the last few weeks you will notice that the slight upward trend Obama had through much of March and April has disappeared with Hillary Clinton gaining back the momentum and then some. For me I think the real issue is Obama's lack of clear policy statements. I also think that as long as he stays this close he can afford to wait on releasing his policy statements until mid-summer/early fall and take the good sized bump they should give him.

Meanwhile, Al Gore continues to leave the door open to his entry in the race, from the New York Times:

When I asked Gore why he hasn’t dismissed all the speculation by issuing a Shermanesque refusal to stand, as he did in 2002, Gore said, "Having spent 30 years as part of the political dialogue, I don’t know why a 600-day campaign is taken as a given, and why people who aren’t in it 600 days out for the convenience of whatever brokers want to close the door and narrow the field and say, ‘This is it, now let’s place your bets’ — If they want to do that, fine. I don’t have to play that game."

I think the fall should be interesting, with some potential big names like Newt Gingrich, Al Gore, Fred Thompson, or the independent ticket featuring Bloomberg or Hagel making an entry into things.