Even stranger is the spectacle of Gore moving even further to the left since the election.
In July, Bradley offered his formal endorsement of Gore at an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Instead of responding to many of Gore's jabs, he sat there like a bump on a log.
Its comic book levels of gore and violence have now helped it become something of a cult classic.
"He is the most effective and influential vice president who has ever served, " Clinton said of Gore recently.
Clinton sees the election of Gore as an affirmation of his presidency and part of his legacy as president.
Its board of trustees includes several Tennesseans who are veterans of Gore's political campaigns, including former Gov. Ned Ray McWherter.
Other voters said ballots were confusing, leading them to vote by mistake for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan instead of Gore.
Their directors occupied the bottom rung on the ladder, below the Famous Directors, the Masters of Horror, and the Kings of Gore.
That's because Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, is part of Gore's portfolio.
At Harvard, one of Gore's fellow freshmen left to join the military.
There were thousands of Gore supporters waiting in the plaza and high-fiving each other as some TV networks called Florida for the Democrats.
The UAW, along with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, had held out on endorsing a candidate because of Gore's record on trade issues.
"If you get to decidin' who's the right people and the wrong people, you're pittin' people against each other, " he said of Gore's tax plan.
"People forget where they came from, they get too comfortable, " Tina Finley of Clarenceville, Tennessee, said of Gore's approach to his home state that year.
But approval for Tuesday's pick trailed the 1992 selection of Gore by former President Bill Clinton, which was embraced by 70 percent of the voters.
Drain the emotion and a more accurate description of Gore emerges.
"The overall economy at the upper sphere is doing very well, " says Jerry Gore, chief executive officer of Gore Design Completions Ltd. in San Antonio, Texas.
In The Best Man, a 1964 adaptation of Gore Vidal's play, Henry Fonda is the thoughtful but philandering candidate whose main rival is the unscrupulous Cliff Robertson.
The Pew study, released Wednesday, found that only 55% of Gore supporters said they strongly support him, compared with 64% of Bush supporters who feel that way about their man.
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At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
Although a registered Republican, Kirsch has been a supporter of Gore's bid for the presidency since he met the vice president at a Silicon Valley fund-raiser featuring rock star Elton John.
Two specific HR policies of GORE-TEX are worth highlighting.
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Nader's strong showing has forced Democrats to work harder in the potential battleground state of Oregon, where he drew 7 percent in a recent poll that also showed Bush narrowly ahead of Gore.
The UAW was one of two major industrial unions -- the other being the Teamsters --that voted against the AFL-CIO endorsement of Gore over his Democratic primary rival Bill Bradley late last year.
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Instead of gore and guns, the Arcade is filled with quirky fun:Marble Blast Ultra, Bankshot Billiards 2, Mutant Storm Reloaded and nods to the old-school Pong crowd with Joust and the Tetris-like Hexic HD.
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Clinton's plans have raised fears in the Gore camp that he was upstaging the vice president ahead of Gore's nomination, but the president kept the focus of his first speaking appearance here mostly on the race ahead.
The uncharacteristically blunt speech by Bradley -- delivered Monday to a Chicago public health group -- illustrated that Bradley is clearly set to return fire, in light of Gore's recent criticism of Bradley's vision for the future of health care.
For anyone seeking to understand the origins of Gore's political personality, routinely characterized as stiff and oddly formal, there are clues to be found in the direct line that traces back through the family to their political hero, Cordell Hull.
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