Competition with Bradley shows Gore's "Passion"

By Paul Chavez

The machine that is Al Gore continued to march on through the month of March by dominating Bill Bradley in what is coined as "Super Tuesday," the most important election day in this years democratic primary.

Gore was expected to win big and he did, sweeping all 16 states participating in Tuesday's election.

It was obvious that things were going bad for Bradley when he lost to Gore in his home state of Missouri losing 64% of the votes to Gore.

In San Francisco, supporters and volunteers of the Gore campaign gathered at Martuni's, a small, elegant bar located in the heart of the city.

Onlookers watched the latest results being flashed on CNN and MSNBC as Gore continued to rack-up victories in the East Coast. Talk began to surface on how Gore will challenge George W. Bush or John McCain, not how he easily defeated Bradley.

"We're excited. We're looking foreword to the fight against the republicans," said Jacinto Hernandez, 21, a political science major at the University of Stanford who heads the organization Students for Al Gore, a support group for the vice president.

"We are looking for a president that accepts all types of people, not one who is trying to divide the people like the republican candidates," said Hernandez.

In what would be considered his victory speech via live telecast from his home state of Tennessee, Gore continually repeated his battle cry by calling for all available voters to jump aboard his victory bus and ride it all the way to the general elections in November.

"Our campaign is your cause," Gore proclaimed throughout the speech as he repeated his stance on issues from gun control to education.

He ended his speech by thanking the people that came out and voted for him promising, "you ain't seen nothing yet." The statement garnered a loud applause from the Gore campaign party crowd at Martuni's.

Retired Air Force veteran Floyd Brown joined the party after volunteering for the last two weeks leading up to Tuesday's elections. "I expect him to keep the Clinton thing going," said Brown, 63, who voted for Gore mainly because of his experience. "Being vice president and a former senator, he was well-seasoned from the get go."

Even before the polls closed in California, Gore supporters had almost stopped looking at the TV sets and continued to celebrate as the landslide piled up.

San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno joined in on the festivities and added, "as a result to the Bradley challenge, Gore was able to be passionate about the issues raised during the elections and we liked what we saw." Leno expects the momentum to carry the Democrats to victory come November, regardless of who challenges Gore for the presidency.

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