The Best Candidate for President As this 2000 election approaches, each candidate is working very hard. They are doing debates, campaigning all over the country in order to get more popular votes and therefore get the electoral votes they need to become the next president of the United States. In all the surveys conducted by the media in most states, Al Gore seems to be the favorite because he knows what he is doing, he has enough experience to lead our country and he also holds very interesting positions within of the government. questions he proposed to the American people.Albert Gore, Jr., was born in Washington DC on March 31, 1948. His mother was Mrs. Pauline Lafon Gore and his father was Albert Gore, Sr. As Governor Bush, Al Gore has a father who worked in politics; his father was a Democratic congressman and senator from Tennessee. Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in government. While studying at Harvard, he was hooked on drugs like marijuana that made his father angry with him, and he almost lost everything he had, so he decided to quit and never again start again. Although Gore opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, he agreed to be drafted into the U.S. Army and served as a military journalist. Upon his return home and until 1976, he worked as an investigative reporter and columnist for "The Tennessean", a Nashville newspaper. Gore married Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson on May 19, 1976 and they have four children. Gore was repeatedly elected to the United States House of Representatives, as well as the United States Senate, and as a member of Congress he gained a reputation as an authority on weapons and environmental issues. After that, Gore unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. In 1992, Al Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate. Also that year, he wrote "Earth in Balance", a book that talks about environmental issues. Clinton defeated the incumbent Republican president, George Bush, and Al Gore became vice president in 1993. They were eventually re-elected in 1996, and in 1999 Gore announced his candidacy for president in the 2000 election. expressed its position on a number of points. problems; some of its most important positions concern education, health care, taxes and social security..