Long-time Gore supporters were surprised by the policy shift, but not his advisers. "We've been polling and using some focus group data that others have pulled together as he prepares these speeches," says a Gore adviser in Washington.
Of late, Gore has made what his people termed "major policy addressees" on the Iraqi situation, the economy and health care. All of the issues were vetted in some way prior to his making the speeches.
"I don't know that it's shading what he says, but he definitely knows beforehand what might play best with this audience. What he does with that information, I don't know," says the adviser.
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