Like Orrin Hatch. Just what Orrin Hatch was doing running for president with a Senate Judiciary Committee to chair is one more mystery of American politics, and of the American ego. But a presidential election is, after all, an elimination process, and once again the process is working. A presidential election can also be an educational process, and Al Gore appears capable of learning almost anything except how to be interesting. He doesn't even interest when he's caught in one of his exaggerations, which is polspeak for one of his woppers.
Politicians are like that.
When ego meets reality, it's reality that bends. In short, the super-delegates at Democratic conventions who anoint the nominee. The Gore campaign so far has been a textbook example of how to win the presidential nomination and lose the election. Because the more Al Bore appeals to Democratic partisans, the less appealing he becomes to the swing voters the winner will need come November. Al Gore may eliminate Bill Bradley without doing much for himself.