The murmurs are growing louder…Will Al Gore be the first presidential candidate to launch a campaign based on a scientific issue? Here is Marty Peretz:
The issues Gore has tended to are issues on which he is truly expert…He is not afraid of science and technology because he knows science and technology.
It seems to me that scientific issues (global warming, R&D, energy policy, etc.) are the best issues for Democrats to draw a clear distinction between themselves and Republicans. Iraq is a miasma, and there are no good alternatives. Closing budget defits requires tax hikes. Apparently, people don’t care about the government gaining access to bank records. But if Democrats ran on science policy, they might actually convince a few voters that they stand for something…