GOREWATCH SEES NOTHING. I'll back Garance on this. I wrote a Gore profile a few months back and have been watching his moves and listening to his circle pretty attentively ever since, and I'd bet against a run too. Some folks are keeping the door ajar and the hope alive -- see Brazile, Donna -- but as of now, there's not much there. Carville, for his part, is saying what will get his name in the news and, if you believe Hotline, trying to deflect attention from Obama. Actually, if you want to be even more cynical, you can believe Carville is talking up Gore to cast Gore's current actions as calculated steps towards a presidential campaign, a narrative that, if Gore detects it, will make him much less likely to run, which is Carville's preferred outcome since Gore is the entrant Hillary's people really fear. All of which basically backs up the contention that Carville probably shouldn't be presented on the teevee as a detached political analyst so long as he's part of Team Hillary. --Ezra Klein
