A PET PEEVE. Dear Pollsters,

Al Gore is not running for president. He is not going to run for president. Could you please stop running polls with him in the race? Thanks ever so.

Most gratefully yours,

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.