If Al Gore needs any more evidence that he's no longer Prince Albert of the Democrats, he'll get it this weekend. The 2004 presidential shopping season is under way--with the rich Democrats who write big campaign checks browsing for a candidate to support--and Gore may be a too familiar face in a crowded field. In 2000 he had the party's nomination and its fat-cat donors all to himself--but blew the race. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the big-money players will be wooed at two competing events: Gore's "donor retreat" at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., and North Carolina Senator John...
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