NOT RUNNING. Since James Carville has kicked off a new round of speculation that Al Gore may enter the race for presidency, let me just add that in the past six months I have had conversations with five different people in line to get early calls from the former Vice President, should he even consider a run, and every one of them assures me that he is not running, including the two I spoke with (again) about this very topic within the past three weeks. I don’t know why Carville said what he did, but it seems to me based on the available evidence that Gore has a wonderful new life and has moved on. As James Cramer told Chris Matthews last Sunday, “He’s really a hedge fund manager now. No one leaves that game.”

–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.