Can Al Sharpton win the 2004 presidential elections?
The Rev. Al Sharpton announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The day before, as part of the King celebration, political big wigs Sen. Hillary Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended an event at Sharpton’s headquarters, which houses the National Action Network. The day after, Sharpton tossed his hat into the ring and the NAN caught fire. “It’s weird to me,” Mr. Sharpton said. Support is coming from the likes of David Dinkins and Dennis Rivera. Rivera, head of the state’s largest healthcare union, said the union would donate $25,000 to help the recovery effort and offered the temporary use of the union’s offices in Midtown. The media have begun a negative spin on Sharpton’s presidential run, with its so-called consensus polls. One poll has 87 percent not taking his candidacy very seriously. Obviously, that poll was not taken in the black and Hispanic communities. In the 2000 election, Al Gore received 91 perc
