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
