Do you dismiss Gore’s 9% ACU rating when Perry chaired his Texas campaign in’88? Or his public support for Carter, Mondale and Dukakis? Perry was in his 30’s for all 3 elections! Bob
I still haven’t found any real information about him supporting Carter in 1980 or Mondale in 1984. I found a site that claimed he was Mondale’s chair, but that same site said he beat “democrat Kay Hutchinson” in an election, and had other factual errors.
I’ve read elsewhere here that he voted for George Bush in 1988, not Dukakis — clearly he supported Al Gore, rather than Dukakis, in the primary. And we know he supported Carter in 1976.
I’m not saying this shows he didn’t support Mondale or Carter, or that it would matter one way or another. There just doesn’t seem to be information on the subject available.
Meanwhile, Al Gore did always have abysmal ACU ratings — 9% was I believe a step up from his 6% in 1986.